Social Determinants of Health Perspective

• Physicians' Views on Today's Divisive Social Issues Report 2022 Physicians reveal their attitudes about 10 of today's hottest social issues, from racial disparities to gun control, and how those challenges affect their lives and practices.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 27, 2022
• The Whitest Specialty: Bias More on orthopedics, which has been called The Whitest Specialty.
  Medscape Orthopedics, May 26, 2022
• What Can We Do About Mass Shootings? Is mental illness the reason for mass shootings? A psychiatrist weighs in.
  Medscape Blogs, May 26, 2022
• The Medical Student Teaching Medicine About Structural Racism   Robert A. Harrington interviews LaShyra Nolen, a medical student and the 2021 recipient of the American Medical Student Association's Racial Justice in Medicine Award.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 25, 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
• 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 Latest in Movement Disorder Research   This year's AAN meeting highlighted differences in outcomes based on patients' backgrounds.
  Medscape Neurology, May 19, 2022
• The Stigma Associated With Mental Illness and Antidepressants Let's have an open conversation about mental illness and antidepressants.
  Medscape Blogs, May 19, 2022
• What We Must Do to Lower Healthcare Costs for Seniors Disruption and innovation fuel healthcare progress today, but something is severely wrong.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 18, 2022
• Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder   A 22-year-old woman with a history of major depression presents at the emergency department with new-onset suicidal ideation after the breakup of a relationship. Her current medications are evaluated and considerations for her follow-up care and treatment options are discussed.
  Medscape, May 17, 2022
• When Words Are Not Enough A psychologist shares her experience exploring a common thread tying patient and provider together.
  Medscape Blogs, May 16, 2022
• Yes, Say Gay: Small Steps to Improving LGBTQ+ Patient Care One psychologist discusses how the US healthcare system fails the LGBTQ+ community and offers ways to address this in the clinic.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 13, 2022
• Attending ASCO in Person This Year? Remember These 14 Tips Bishal Gyawali, MD, PhD, provides guidance on how to get the most out of the upcoming ASCO meeting.
  Medscape Oncology, May 12, 2022
• ACC 2022 Making Healthy (Plant-Based) Diets the Easy Choice   Drs Michelle O'Donoghue and Robert Ostfeld discuss plant-based nutrition and how to make it easier for us to choose healthy foods to improve our cardiovascular health.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 09, 2022
• Providing Equitable Care in Early Breast Cancer   Experts at Mount Sinai in New York City report on groundbreaking advances in early breast cancer therapy and discuss strategies to ensure access to comprehensive breast cancer care for all patients.
  Medscape TV, May 09, 2022
• You vs Us: Whom Did COVID Vaccines Protect?   Throwing a spanner into the hopes for high levels of population immunity.
  Medscape, May 04, 2022
• Episode 4: Retention and Care for Patients With HIV   Drs Michael Saag and Michael Mugavero discuss the connection between antiretroviral therapy, retention, and care for patients with HIV.
  Medscape, May 04, 2022
• Is the AMA Irrelevant or the Main Player? Books and articles expose the problems inside medicine but solutions don't seem to follow.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 03, 2022
• Advice on Small Practice Mergers If you are considering a merger, which offers many benefits, here are some things to think about, says Joseph S. Eastern, MD.
  Medscape Dermatology, April 29, 2022