Perspectives

• This Nurse Wants Change, Not a Pizza Party, for Nurses Month Pizza parties and discounts are all very well, but given that Nurses Month is also Mental Health Awareness Month, this nurse would like to see that issue addressed.
  Medscape Blogs, May 24, 2022
• U.S. Surgeon General Issues Advisory on Health Worker Burnout   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, MD, about the urgent need to address a growing health worker burnout crisis across the country.
  WebMD, May 24, 2022
• Prophylaxis for PJP in Patients With Sarcoidosis Dr Aaron Holley scrutinizes the practice of prescribing TMP-SMX to prevent Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in patients on oral corticosteroids for sarcoidosis.
  Medscape Critical Care, May 24, 2022
• How Medical Images Impact Physician Biases The lack of diversity in medical education is continuing to fail current and future doctors. One medical student reflects on the subtle inequalities that persist and how to actively combat them.
  Medscape Blogs, May 24, 2022
• What Will It Take to Cure EHR Note Bloat? Stop typing the equivalent of War and Peace and embrace click parsimony are among the tips from Epic's CMO and others for cutting the time spent on electronic health records.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 24, 2022
• Tirzepatide: 'Exciting' and Promising in Lowering A1c   Tirzepatide is the newest player in the quest for lowering A1c in people with type 2 diabetes. Dr Anne Peters describes the novel agent -- what it can do for patients now and in the future.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 23, 2022
• Climate Change, Medical Education, and Dermatology The effects of climate change in dermatology include heat-related illness, changing patterns of vector-borne illnesses, and pollution and wildfire smoke causing flares of inflammatory skin diseases.
  Medscape Dermatology, May 23, 2022
• The Medication That Patients Were Itching to Try Dr William Balistreri comments on the considerable promise of novel therapies for intractable cholestatic pruritus.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 23, 2022
• I Was Lost in an Abyss of Electronic Clicks If grace still existed, it had long been consumed by an abyss of electronic clicks. Empathy was not efficient and, thus, no longer welcome. It was a moral disconnect that I could no longer reconcile.
  Medscape Oncology, May 23, 2022
• Alzheimer's Disease: Hope on the Horizon: The Winding Road to Approval   Experts at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, discuss the bumpy road to the FDA's accelerated approval of aducanumab.
  Medscape TV, May 23, 2022
• Gynecologic Cancer Studies: What to Look for at ASCO 2022   It's not just about ovarian cancer anymore -- presentations at ASCO 2022 illustrate the major advances that have been made in gynecologic cancer treatments.
  Medscape Oncology, May 20, 2022
• May 20 2022 This Week in Cardiology   Ischemia vs anatomic testing for CAD, UK-TAVI trial, TAVI for AR? and post-PCI anti-thrombotics are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 20, 2022
• Why I'm Offering DMPA to Patients With Uterine Fibroids   Dr Andrew Kaunitz reviews the effectiveness of DMPA in the treatment of the most common gynecologic tumors: uterine fibroids.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, May 20, 2022
• Management of Post-COVID Cardiac Symptoms   How primary care physicians can evaluate and counsel patients with persistent cardiovascular symptoms after COVID.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 20, 2022
• Can an NP Lose Their Job if a Doc 'Collaborator' Backs Away? A recent legal case exemplifies the difficulties posed by requirements in some states that nurse practitioners have a physician's oversight.
  Medscape Nurses, May 20, 2022
• How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain   Pain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain.
  Medscape, May 20, 2022
• Unintentional Lessons of Third-Year Clinical Rotations Between delivering babies, running codes, and managing diabetes, there is a lot to learn from clinical rotations that I know will contribute to my future role as a resident physician.
  Medscape Blogs, May 20, 2022
• Environmental Health Is Going to Get Very Personal Sometimes it seems that not much can be done to protect the environment, but there are steps we can take to lessen the impact on our personal health and protect that of our patients.
  Endocrine Society, May 19, 2022
• How to Make Visits Run More Smoothly and Be More Productive Some symptoms are so distressing and severe that symptomatic treatment is needed, but most aren't.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 19, 2022
• The PreserFlo MicroShunt: A Conversation With Dr Ike Ahmed Dr Patel interviews Iqbal "Ike" K. Ahmed, MD, about the PreserFlo MicroShunt, an 8-mm-long tube that is inserted into the eye to help lower eye pressure in glaucoma.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, May 19, 2022