Latest Residents News

• Hospital Medicine Gains Popularity Among Newly Minted Physicians More senior physicians trend toward outpatient care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• APA 2022 A Psychiatric Patient Confesses to Murder: Now What? A Philadelphia case report offers lessons in handling an unusual dilemma where, an expert notes, law and medical ethics didn't present a clear-cut solution.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Neurosurgeon in the Making: The Amazing Journey of Kwadwo Sarpong How did a young immigrant, who began life in the US as a janitor, start several nonprofits, garner invitations to the White House, and achieve his dream of pursuing a career in neurosurgery? Read on.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Accused of Scientific Misconduct — And That Was Just the Beginning The Sept. 10, 2019 PBS article accompanying the Frontline documentary "Deadly Water" was topped by a provocative headline: "The EPA Says Flint's Water is Safe — Scientists Aren't So Sure."
  Retraction Watch, May 19, 2022
• This Rural County Was a Vaccine Success Story. Not Anymore. Meigs County, Tennessee, reported one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the South for much of the past year. But those reports were wrong because of a data error.
  Kaiser Health News, May 19, 2022
• Marthe Gautier, 'Forgotten' Discoverer of Trisomy 21, Dies Gautier's scientific contributions, like those of many other women, were not initially given their due acknowledgement.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Shared Decision-Making 'Only Sometimes Useful' in Surgery A new study finds that surgeons' use of shared decision-making is highly variable, but editorialists argue that this approach may be inappropriate when a scenario is clear-cut.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Improved Cancer Survival in States with ACA Medicaid Expansion An increase in cancer survival rates has been seen in states that implemented Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Doctor Accused of 'Fraudulent Concealment' Can't Be Held Liable Claim against hospital is halted as well.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 18, 2022
• Updated AHA/ASA Guideline Changes Care for Spontaneous ICH Several "standard care" therapies for ICH are not as effective as once thought and are no longer recommended in updated guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• New US Hospitals Face Fiscal Crisis Over COVID Relief Money Three US medical centers say they are missing out on federal pandemic relief money because the facilities are so new they lack full financial statements from before the crisis to prove how much it cost them.
  Associated Press, May 17, 2022
• The COVID Testing Company That Missed 96% of Cases Officials across Nevada signed agreements with Northshore Clinical Labs, a COVID testing laboratory run by men with local political connections. There was only one problem: Its tests didn't work.
  ProPublica, May 16, 2022
• Millions of Federal Dollars Available to Tackle COVID Health Gaps A year ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded states and local health departments $2.25 billion to help people of color and other populations at higher risk from COVID.
  Kaiser Health News, May 16, 2022
• Alert RaDonda Vaught Sentenced to Probation for Patient Death The 38-year-old nurse received 3 years of supervised probation and was permanently stripped of her nursing license. She also apologized for the first time to the family of Charlene Murphey.
  News Alerts, May 13, 2022
• North Korea Reports First COVID Outbreak If infections spread, an outbreak could cause a crisis in North Korea, which lacks medical supplies and has isolated itself by keeping borders closed and refusing international help with vaccines.
  WebMD Health News, May 12, 2022
• What Do Ultrasound Images Find in Superficial Lumps and Bumps? The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound offers illustrated clinical tips in a recently published paper to help diagnose and manage commonly identified masses.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• AAD 2022 Dermatology Residency Focuses on Rural Placement of Graduates The structure of the residency, which involves 3-month–long rotations at rural clinics in Mississippi, is designed to address the shortage of rural-based dermatologists in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Medical Education Programs Tell How Climate Change Affects Health Medical schools are educating the next generation of doctors on one of the most widespread, insidious health threats of our time.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2022
• Travel Nurses See Change of Fortunes as COVID Money Runs Dry Travel nurse contracts that were plentiful and paid the temporary nurses far more than hospital staff nurses are vanishing. Hospitals nationwide are turning their energies to recruiting full-time people.
  Kaiser Health News, May 10, 2022
• Running an Abortion Cinic While Waiting for Court Decision There are the clients — so many of them desperate, in need, grateful. There are the abortion opponents — passionate, relentless, often furious.
  Associated Press, May 10, 2022