Perspectives

• How COVID-19 Affects the Brain, With a Cameo by Dr Fauci From the virtual AAN 2021 conference, Dr Andrew Wilner summarizes meeting hot topics, which this year -- not surprisingly -- centered around COVID-19.
  Medscape Neurology, April 22, 2021
• VEXAS Syndrome: Implications for Dermatologists "In reading the article describing 25 patients with this syndrome, I was struck by how refractory they were to treatment," says Karl Saardi, MD.
  Medscape Dermatology, April 22, 2021
• Is Returning to Normalcy Causing You Stress?   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Mena Mirhom, MD, Board-Certified Psychiatrist, Columbia University, about how to cope with post-pandemic anxiety.
  WebMD, April 22, 2021
• Chauvin Guilty Verdict: Now It's Time to Get to Work! Psychiatrist Lorenzo Norris, MD, reflects on the guilty verdict in the murder of George Floyd and whether this may finally signal the beginning of the end of systemic racism in America.
  Medscape Psychiatry, April 21, 2021
• Peter Hotez Talks Russia, Lady Gaga, and the Antiscience Movement   Peter Hotez regularly counters antiscience rhetoric. He tells Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese how the movement cost lives in COVID-19, and that as clinicians, speaking up for science is ‘our lane.’
  Medscape, April 21, 2021
• Lessons Learned During COVID-19 Will Help Us Better Treat HCV In figuring out how to practice during a pandemic, we may have also learned new skills for monitoring and treating patients with HCV, says Dr William Balistreri.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 21, 2021
• Is Epidural Use During Labor Linked With Autism?   Two studies came to different conclusions on whether the use of epidural analgesia during labor increases the risk for autism in the child. What's going on, and which should we believe?
  Medscape, April 21, 2021
• Freefall: How Skydiving Is Like Cancer Surgery   Cancer surgery is filled with moments of fear, even for doctors. Our cameras follow as an oncologist confronts this anxiety in the second episode of our video series 'The Oncologists'.
  Medscape Oncology, April 21, 2021
• An Expert's Guide to Managing Familial Hypercholesterolemia   Dr Seth Baum on how to recognize both homozygous and heterozygous FM, and treat them before they inflict their tremendous damage.
  American College of Cardiology & Medscape , April 21, 2021
• Difficult Colleague Spoiling Your Workday? Here's Advice What should you do when a difficult colleague or administrator is making your work life insufferable? An expert in physician career issues gives advice.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 21, 2021
• Updates on Semaglutide for Weight Loss, From ENDO 2021   Dr Anne Peters discusses updates from the STEP trials that were presented at ENDO 2021.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, April 20, 2021
• The COVID-19 Virus Has No Borders   John Whyte, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, WebMD. Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations.
  WebMD, April 20, 2021
• An Update on New Epilepsy Medications Four new medications expand options for clinicians treating epilepsy.
  Medscape Neurology, April 20, 2021
• J&J Vaccine: CVST, VITT, and What Physicians Should Do   What to tell patients, what to watch for, what tests to order, and how to manage a potential thrombotic event.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, April 20, 2021
• Med Ed Racism Discussions Must Include Classism Conversations related to racism in medical education too often leave out interrelated concerns regarding classism. Here are some ways to ensure that important issues aren't left behind.
  Medscape Med Students, April 20, 2021
• Can Minimally Invasive SAVR Challenge TAVR?   Cardiologist Wayne Batchelor talks with cardiothoracic surgeon Tom Nguyen about his experience with minimally invasive aortic valve replacement surgery.
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 19, 2021
• Casanova on the Dementia Unit While my patient's memory faded, his passion for life did not. So, how to resolve the complications and jealousy that resulted from his romantic rendezvous?
  Medscape Family Medicine, April 19, 2021
• Losing Both Parents During COVID: A Physician's 'Unwitnessed Grief' Melissa Walton-Shirley quit full-time practice to help care for her elderly parents. That they would both die during a pandemic when close comfort and mourning rituals were not allowed magnified her loss.
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 19, 2021
• Preventing Psychosocial Effects of Adult ADHD During the Pandemic Four doctors look at how to address the link between ADHD and COVID-19.
  Medscape Psychiatry, April 19, 2021
• The Optimized Doctor: Say My Name Mispronouncing names can alienate patients.
  Medscape Dermatology, April 19, 2021