Geriatrics Perspective

• Healthcare vs the Grim Reaper Labeling healthcare workers as warriors against death is setting them up for failure and burnout.
  Medscape Blogs, September 23, 2021
• Wellcome Trust's Jeremy Farrar: 'Seeing the End of the Pandemic Is Premature'   Jeremy Farrar explains why we must expect new variants, and why he’d like to give away his booster shot.
  Medscape, September 22, 2021
• Managing Hip Pain: Clinicians Debate Readers weighed in on Dr Vega's management of a patient with hip pain. Here's the crowdsourced opinion.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 16, 2021
• 'Locker Room' Talk About Death: Time for Oncologists to Stop 'Well, it's pretty clear he's going to die.' The brusque phrasing felt atypical coming from the otherwise gentle-hearted trainee.
  Medscape Oncology, September 16, 2021
• Beyond Medical Boundaries: Could This Be Witchcraft? There had been an argument. A member of the patient's immigrant community had uttered an incantation. What followed in her medical course could not easily be explained.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 14, 2021
• The Real Toll Neighborhood Can Take on Active Life Expectancy Dr William Hung reviews recent data on health disparities related to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status among older adults.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 14, 2021
• ESC 2021 Is 1-Month DAPT Safe? Reconciling MASTER DAPT and STOPDAPT-2   Drs O'Donoghue and Valgimigli discuss abbreviated dual antiplatelet therapy data in high bleeding risk and acute coronary syndrome from studies presented at the 2021 European Society of Cardiology Congress.
  theheart.org on Medscape, September 13, 2021
• Have We Set Unrealistic Goals for the End of the Pandemic?   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Celine Gounder, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, about her recent article in The Atlantic on how the pandemic is likely to end.
  WebMD, September 09, 2021
• A Horse in the Hospital? Meet 'Doctor Peyo' A 15-year-old stallion is having a remarkable impact on the patients and caregivers at one French hospital.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 01, 2021
• Universal Care Algorithms May Not Work for Everyone Two recent studies illustrate how population diversity can defy the universal approach to diabetes screening and follow-up care
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, August 27, 2021
• Google's Head of AI Talks About the Future of the EHR   Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google, talks with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese about using technology to improve people's lives. And, he says, a lot of this started with cat videos.
  Medscape, August 20, 2021
• 'Countdown to Zero': Endocrine Disruptors and Sperm Counts A urologist makes the case that everyday chemicals are behind the ongoing decline in sperm counts seen in Western countries.
  Medscape Urology, August 19, 2021
• Day vs Night Blood Pressure Drug Dosing A cardiologist revisits the topic of chronotherapy and blood pressure management in light of two contrasting editorials and continued controversy surrounding the Hygia trial.
  theheart.org on Medscape, August 19, 2021
• The Older We Are, the More Unique We Become Despite having one thing in common (their advanced age), my four patients couldn't have been more different.
  Medscape Family Medicine, August 18, 2021
• The Time for Ambiguity and Indecisiveness Has Passed Read why this nurse believes the time for indecisiveness is over, and the time for action is now, especially with the spectacularly rapid rise in Delta variant infections and hospitalizations.
  Medscape Blogs, August 12, 2021
• Leading Pfizer Scientist on Vaccine for Kids Under 12   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with William C. Gruber, MD, Senior Vice President, Vaccine Clinical R&D, Pfizer, about the status of their vaccine for kids under 12.
  WebMD, August 06, 2021
• Leading Pfizer Scientist Answers Key Vaccine Questions   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, asks William C. Gruber, MD, Senior Vice President, Vaccine Clinical R&D, Pfizer, pressing questions about their mRNA vaccine.
  WebMD, August 05, 2021
• HRS 2021 The Three Big Stories From HRS 2021 Presentations on pulsed field ablation and left bundle branch pacing caught the eye of this electrophysiologist. However, being able to meet in person trumped all at the 2021 Heart Rhythm Society meeting.
  theheart.org on Medscape, August 05, 2021
• How One Drive-By Clinic Fought Declining CRC Screening Rates A program combining FIT testing with flu vaccines provides a template for how to provide care to underserved communities.
  July 30, 2021
• Are You Protected Against the Delta Variant?   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Eric Topol, MD, Executive VP, Scripps Research & Editor-in-Chief, Medscape, about the COVID-19 Delta variant.
  WebMD, July 28, 2021