Perspectives

• Medscape Physician Wealth & Debt Report 2023 Physicians report their successes and failures in building wealth, controlling spending, managing debt and expenses, investing smartly, and maintaining a comfortable lifestyle.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, June 09, 2023
• Jun 09 2023 This Week in Cardiology   Impella, digital health, low-value processes, are tricuspid valve interventions with pacing leads are the topics Dr. John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, June 09, 2023
• AI & U: 2 Let's look further down the road for how AI and other technological advances might change the look and feel of primary care.
  MDedge, June 09, 2023
• Infographic: Are Pay Increases Enough to Make PAs Content? Physician assistants (PAs) report on what happened with their total compensation in 2022, which medical environments offer the best pay, and whether the gender salary gap is closing in their ranks.
  Medscape, June 09, 2023
• Self-Talk Overhaul May Help Patients Achieve Weight Loss When people with obesity engage in negative self-talk, does it affect their ability to stay motivated? This researcher's program shows just how beneficial reducing self-stigma can be.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 09, 2023
• Did an Unfair System Help ADAURA Win on Overall Survival? Jack West, MD, discusses the problematic design and ethical issues of the ADAURA trial.
  Medscape Oncology, June 08, 2023
• S2 Episode 5: Suicide Risk in Major Depressive Disorder   Drs Madhukar H. Trivedi and Christoph U. Correll discuss the predictors of suicidal ideation, attempt, and death, as well as how to address the topic of suicidality with patients and their loved ones.
  Medscape, June 08, 2023
• Applications of Office Hysteroscopy for Infertility When performed properly, office hysteroscopy can transform your practice by accurately, gently, and safely assessing the uterine cavity as well as assessing tubal patency.
  MDedge, June 08, 2023
• High Hopes, Dashed Dreams: Progress in GI Cancers at ASCO   Mark A. Lewis, MD, discusses news in GI oncology from the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting.
  Medscape Oncology, June 08, 2023
• AI & U In the long term, you and I may find that AI is a serious threat to our existence as healthcare providers.
  MDedge, June 07, 2023
• Episode 3: Vaccines and Pediatric Pneumonia   Drs Todd A. Florin and Richard Malley discuss the history, challenges, and future directions of pneumococcal vaccination, including expanding serotype coverage and methods of worldwide distribution.
  Medscape, June 07, 2023
• Episode 4: How to Cut IPF Symptom Distress   Drs Jeffrey Swigris and Meena Kalluri discuss palliative care practices that ameliorate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis–related symptom burden for patients and their caregivers.
  Medscape, June 07, 2023
• Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'   Dr Eric Topol and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's enthusiasm for his latest novel.
  Medscape, June 07, 2023
• Episode 3: Immunotherapy in Advanced and Metastatic Breast Cancer   Drs Banu Arun and Kevin Kalinsky discuss immunotherapy in the treatment of advanced and metastatic breast cancer, including recent studies, side effects, access to treatment, and disparities in care.
  Medscape, June 07, 2023
• Does Weight Loss Surgery Up the Risk for Bone Fractures? Studies have shown a link between weight loss surgery and subsequent loss of bone density. Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH, explains why this occurs and offers recommendations to reduce the risk.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 07, 2023
• Antibiotics for AECOPD: It's Still Controversial The Rome criteria aren't evidence-based; rather, they're a necessary first step toward creating the evidence.
  Medscape Critical Care, June 06, 2023
• How Can We Make Medical Training Less 'Toxic'?   Robert D. Glatter, MD; Amy Faith Ho, MD, MPH; and Júlia Loyola Ferreira, MD, discuss ways to address and reform the toxic culture associated with medical training.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, June 06, 2023
• NSCLC e-Tumor Boards: Case 6: NSCLC with Multiple Primaries   This case is about a 75-year-old woman with poor performance status with multiple primary lung cancers, the highest stage being IIIA-N2, with multiple recurrences after various local therapy modalities since 2006. The team highlights the power of pathology and the value of molecular diagnostics in distinguishing between the lesions.
  Medscape, June 06, 2023
• Virtual Reality Takes the Field in Glaucoma Spurred by the pandemic, virtual reality visual field testing is poised to challenge traditional methods of monitoring patients with glaucoma.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, June 06, 2023
• S2 Episode 3: Renal Medullary Carcinoma   Drs Sumanta Pal and Pavlos Msaouel discuss the unique pathophysiology of renal medullary carcinoma, treatment options, clinical trials, and the importance of screening and early detection.
  Medscape, June 06, 2023