Orthopedics Perspective

• Best & Worst Places to Practice 2022 Some states offer lots of perks and temptations for physician practices, although each doctor has their own priorities that make some places more desirable.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, 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
• 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
• A1c, Blood Pressure Fluctuations Predict Fracture Risk Dr Plotzker reviews new studies linking glycemic control and blood pressure variations to fractures in older populations.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 18, 2022
• Medscape Orthopedist Compensation Report 2022 Medscape's Orthopedist Compensation Report 2022 explores income sources, pay gaps, and attitudes about work as COVID's impact on medical practices declines.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 13, 2022
• The Case for Post-COVID Steroids   Dr F. Perry Wilson cautions against changing practice on the basis of a single study.
  Medscape, May 12, 2022
• A Doctor, a Poem, and a License to Reflect   The arts offer powerful ways to reconnect with the sentiments and motivations that brought us to medicine in the first place.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 05, 2022
• Cure, Prevent, or Manage All Disease: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Bold Plan Is Already Working   Dr Eric Topol sits down with Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to talk about the next phase of their ambitious Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
  Medscape, April 28, 2022
• Infographic: Physician Incomes Gain, Pay Gaps Remain The Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2022 infographic shows growth in physician income, specialties with biggest pay gains, and pay disparities between men and women and between ethnic groups.
  Medscape, April 22, 2022
• Trans Women in Female Sports: A Sports Scientist's Take Swimmer Lia Thomas put trans women's participation in female sports back in the headlines. Exercise physiologist Ross Tucker discusses the science and the colliding rights of fairness and inclusion.
  Medscape Orthopedics, April 21, 2022
• Animal Reservoirs, Immunocompromised Hosts: COVID Dangers Ahead   Stanford's Benjamin Pinsky on the potential for even more transmissible and pathogenic versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to arise.
  Medscape, April 21, 2022
• Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2022: Incomes Gain, Pay Gaps Remain Income is starting to recover for many physicians, who are still trying to overcome a very tough year.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, April 15, 2022
• Eric Topol: 'I Still Have My Guard Up'   Why we should be shifting into high gear on treatments for long COVID and a pan-beta-coronavirus vaccine.
  Medscape, April 08, 2022
• Give Patients Can'ts but Also Can Do's In my experience, too many physicians forget to include a generous list of 'can do's' in their visit closing discussions. This oversight is a mistake for several reasons.
  Medscape Pediatrics, April 01, 2022
• How and Why the Language of Medicine Must Change Words matter. Which of today's commonly used terms need updating, and what are better alternatives?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, March 30, 2022
• The Medical Model Doesn't Work for Mental Health   Former NIMH Director Tom Insel explains how the medical model has failed the field of psychiatry.
  Medscape, March 25, 2022
• WebMD/Medscape Reveal Winners of 'Meddys' Film Awards Readers weighed in on Best Doctor, Best Medical Film, and other categories in our inaugural movie awards.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, March 25, 2022
• I Don't Have a Patient Portal. And I Probably Never Will Neurologist Allan Block on how to practice when patient portals aren't an option.
  Medscape Neurology, March 24, 2022
• Pain in Vain or Flexible Prescribing? CDC's Draft Opioid Guidance With this proposed update, CDC seeks to restore physician autonomy and balance in pain management, but has the pendulum swung too far in the direction of "never opioids"?
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, March 22, 2022
• Why I Left Pharma -- After 'Leaving' Academia for Pharma Four years ago, psychiatric researcher Dr Nassir Ghaemi swapped academia for an industry job, seeking greater freedom to advance treatments. It didn't turn out as he expected.
  Medscape Psychiatry, March 16, 2022