Gastroenterology Perspective

• The Important Questions to Consider When Caring for Patients With Ulcerative Colitis   Oriana M. Damas, MD, advises new faculty to ask their patients with ulcerative colitis questions that go beyond the surface.
  Medscape, May 23, 2022
• Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Patient-Centered Approach   Miguel Regueiro, MD, stresses the urgency of a "whole-care" therapeutic approach in the management of inflammatory bowel disease.
  Medscape, May 23, 2022
• The Medication That Patients Were Itching to Try Dr William Balistreri comments on the considerable promise of novel therapies for intractable cholestatic pruritus.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 23, 2022
• I Was Lost in an Abyss of Electronic Clicks If grace still existed, it had long been consumed by an abyss of electronic clicks. Empathy was not efficient and, thus, no longer welcome. It was a moral disconnect that I could no longer reconcile.
  Medscape Oncology, May 23, 2022
• 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
• 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
• Colorectal Cancer e-Tumor Boards: Case 2: Colorectal Liver Metastases   The case focuses on a 32-year-old man whose colonoscopy showed a non-bleeding mass about 2-3 cm above the anal verge with some symptoms of mild partial obstruction. His staging imaging demonstrates multiple liver lesions, a mid-rectal thickening, and some small pulmonary nodules.
  Medscape, May 18, 2022
• Skin Testing May Help Detect Movement Disorders   Drs Andrew Wilner and Christopher Gibbons discuss recent data on alpha-synuclein in the context of synucleinopathies presented at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology meeting.
  Medscape Neurology, May 18, 2022
• Episode 4: Better Ways to Sustain Weight Loss in Type 2 Diabetes   Patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity have more options today than ever before. Join host Dr Silvio Inzucchi and obesity expert Dr Ania Jastreboff as they discuss ways to support weight loss.
  Medscape, May 18, 2022
• How a Patient Encounter Affected a Clinician's Understanding of Ulcerative Colitis   Oriana M. Damas, MD, reflects on a case in medical school of a young male patient with ulcerative colitis.
  Medscape, May 17, 2022
• Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: Shared Decision-Making   Miguel Regueiro, MD, advises new clinicians to listen to their patients as part of the shared-decision-making process.
  Medscape, May 16, 2022
• Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: Maximizing the Benefit to Patients   Miguel Regueiro, MD, reflects on the gradual shift away from treatments for ulcerative colitis, such as the long-term prescribing of steroids and surgery.
  Medscape, May 16, 2022
• Medscape Gastroenterology Compensation Report 2022 Medscape's Gastroenterology 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
• 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
• 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
• Why Iodized Salt Is Important for You and Your Thyroid Lack of iodine can lead to thyroid deficiency disorders. Dr Elizabeth Pearce discusses iodized salt, its importance, and how to increase iodine intake.
  Endocrine Society, May 10, 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
• Young Adult Obesity Has Quintupled. Will 'Cancer Wave' Follow?   Maurie Markman discusses a recent article highlighting obesity prevalence among young adults with an eye toward the implications for cancer incidence in the United States.
  Medscape Oncology, May 09, 2022
• Alarming Global Rise in Pediatric Hepatitis: Expert Q&A Pediatric hepatologist Dr William Balistreri shares his insights on the mysterious, possibly adenovirus-related outbreak.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 05, 2022
• Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: Moving Toward a New Array of Therapeutics   "It is really refreshing and wonderful that our patients have so many more options than we had 20 years ago," says Sandra Quezada, MD, on advances in ulcerative colitis.
  Medscape, May 05, 2022