Coronavirus Perspective

 
 

  • Long COVID: When Doctors Become Patients About 60% of doctors with long COVID have fatigue when pursuing their daily activities, and only 31% currently have a full-time job.
  • COVID, Flu, RSV: How the Tripledemic Impacts Your Practice   This fall's ‘tripledemic’ is already filling offices with COVID-19, flu and RSV patients. Renowned expert Dr. Eric Topol discusses the vaccine landscape to help you tackle your patients' questions.
  • Italy's Resilience Plan for Healthcare Is Falling Apart A plan intended to bolster Italy's healthcare system immediately attracted critics and is now the target of funding cuts.
  • Episode 4: Identifying and Managing Patients With Long COVID   Drs Matteo Bassetti and Romain Sonneville discuss identifying long COVID in patients and how to discuss post-COVID syndrome with patients and other healthcare providers.
  • Barbie Has an Anxiety Disorder Let's all pause and reflect for a moment on the fact that the number-one grossing film of 2023 is about our childhood doll trying to treat her anxiety disorder.
  • Diabetes and Heart Disease Highlights From ESC 2023   Lead author Mikhail Kosiborod discusses the STEP-HFpEF trial of semaglutide in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and other highlights in diabetes and CVD from ESC 2023.
  • Three Cases of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinicians should consider all three etiologies on community-acquired pneumonia presentation to improve antimicrobial stewardship and patient outcomes.
  • Medscape Resident Salary & Debt Report 2023 Medical residents weigh in on their compensation and its fairness, work benefits, school debt load, work weeks, and other aspects of their training lives.
  • Disenfranchised Grief: What It Looks Like, Where It Goes Two physicians share their experiences with personal losses they didn't feel they could mourn.
  • HYP 2023 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from HYP 2023
  • Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine   A new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death.
  • Episode 6: RSV in Rural Communities: Lessons From Appalachia   Rates of RSV are rising in rural communities. How are rural healthcare providers responding? Join Drs Forest Arnold and Brittanie West as they discuss.
  • Medscape Hospitalist Wealth & Debt Report 2023 Hospitalists report their successes and failures in building wealth, controlling spending, managing debt and expenses, investing smartly, and maintaining a comfortable lifestyle.
  • ERS 2023 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ERS 2023
  • Medscape Medical Student Lifestyle Report 2023 Medical students reveal their concerns about job stress, financial worries, and work-life balance, among other issues. They also tell how consistently they feel burned out and what they do about it.
  • Medscape Physician Behavior Report 2023 Physicians reveal how often they see fellow doctors misbehaving in person or on social media and recount some of the worst physician behavior they have witnessed.
  • Canadian Physicians Satisfied With Work, Not Compensation Canadian physicians said that their work is rewarding but acknowledge challenges, including long hours, staffing problems, too many rules and regulations, and too little compensation for their efforts.
  • Medscape Employed Physicians Report 2023 Employed physicians reveal the pros and cons of their jobs, income and bonus structure, roles in the organization, and corporate policies and rules.
  • Episode 3: Highlights in the Treatment of COVID-19   Drs Matteo Bassetti and Tobias Welte discuss highlights in the treatment of patients with COVID-19, including a discussion of antivirals, corticosteroids, monoclonal antibodies, and what lies ahead for future treatment options.
  • How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic   The medical and dental students who kept polio patients alive by hand-ventilating them around the clock are among the cast of characters in this incredible story.