Medscape Blogs - Primary Care

• Screen Time for Kids: What’s the Big Deal? Less is better when it comes to screen time for kids and more “in real life” is best!
  Medscape Blogs, November 03, 2022
• Polio Making a Comeback? A recent case of polio is a wake-up call, says a pediatrician who outlines ways in which physicians can convince skeptical parents to get their children vaccinated.
  Medscape Blogs, October 06, 2022
• Resiliency in Medicine A pediatrician reflects on resiliency in medicine: what it is, where it comes from, and why it is necessary for physicians.
  Medscape Blogs, August 25, 2022
• 'Hello, This Is 988. What Is Your Mental Health Emergency?' The 988 emergency number launches for responding to acute mental health crises -- hope and help are on the way!
  Medscape Blogs, July 28, 2022
• How to Lower Healthcare Spending and Increase Health Equity Working toward achieving health equity while improving healthcare spending is the goal. Here's how one physician is doing it within each clinical encounter.
  Medscape Blogs, July 18, 2022
• Attacking Childhood Anxiety in Primary Care A pediatrician suggests starting with the "Big 4" to tackle anxiety in children.
  Medscape Blogs, July 08, 2022
• The Incredible Power of the Stories Patients Tell Us Are you good at not interrupting your patients? The benefit of carefully listening to patients' stories is immense.
  Medscape Blogs, June 17, 2022
• It Starts at the Beginning: Racism in the Medical Profession Historically, underrepresented minorities face significant obstacles to attain medical school admission. Here's my story.
  Medscape Blogs, June 15, 2022
• Mental Health IS Health Time to stand up for mental health care.
  Medscape Blogs, June 07, 2022
• Stop Calling Children Resilient Children have reached their mental health limits with the pandemic. The resilience narrative is not helping their recovery.
  Medscape Blogs, March 07, 2022
• Be Prepared to Talk PrEP Physicians may be missing opportunities to discuss HIV prevention with their sexually active patients.
  Medscape Blogs, February 25, 2022
• Cruising During a Pandemic Another COVID surge threatens to sink a frontline physician's highly anticipated cruise vacation.
  Medscape Blogs, February 23, 2022
• What Is Up With Suboxone? The medication everyone wants to know more about.
  Medscape Blogs, January 06, 2022
• The Code Status Conversation -- Do It Before It's Too Late One physician stresses that a code status conversation is a matter of life and death.
  Medscape Blogs, December 07, 2021
• Cultural Humility in Medicine: Moving Beyond Race and Ethnicity In an effort to become more patient-centered, healthcare has adapted initiatives to become more culturally competent. But is cultural competence enough to address health inequities?
  Medscape Blogs, December 03, 2021
• Letting Go: A Life Lesson at Home and at Work When it comes to teaching, sometimes you have to let go. How a father's proud moment becomes a metaphor for his work.
  Medscape Blogs, November 17, 2021
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Death of the Linear Career Path A career in medicine will often follow a predictable sequence of events. Can this sequence be disrupted and still result in success?
  Medscape Blogs, October 19, 2021
• Healthcare Consumerism: Is the Customer Always Right? Will the application of market theory to healthcare solve its most pressing problems?
  Medscape Blogs, October 11, 2021
• Shout It From the Rooftops: Undetectable = Untransmittable! A not-so-secret fact about HIV and how physicians can make sure their patients know about it.
  Medscape Blogs, October 08, 2021
• What I Learned From My Kids During the Pandemic The best teachers in life often do not have a college degree and still drink juice boxes.
  Medscape Blogs, September 17, 2021