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• Cancer Groundshot: From Blog Post to ASCO Session Bishal Gyawali, MD, PhD, looks at the rise of the cancer groundshot.
  Medscape Oncology, April 20, 2022
• Battling Obesity by Breaking Down Barriers Two primary care physicians detail their experiences in treating those with obesity through a community-based dedicated weight clinic after receiving their obesity medicine certification.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, April 19, 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
• Should Unvaccinated People Be Allowed to Get Organ Transplants?   Professor Art Caplan discusses considerations for including COVID-19 vaccination status as a requirement for transplantation.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 14, 2022
• Gastroenterologists Can Do Better at Managing Antithrombotics   We need to be more mindful of stopping anticoagulants/antiplatelets during acute GI bleeds and endoscopy, says Dr David Johnson.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 14, 2022
• Are All Medical Errors Now Crimes? The Nurse Vaught Verdict   Drs Robert Glatter, Jane Barnsteiner, and Megan Ranney discuss medical errors related to medication dispensing, inspired by a recent event.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 13, 2022
• Episode 4: The Impact of BRCA Status on Therapy Choices   Drs Lidia Schapira and Nadine Tung discuss how BRCA status affects choosing therapy for patients with early-stage breast cancer.
  Medscape, April 12, 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
• Is Saturated Fat or Carbohydrates Worse for the Liver? Dr. Caroline Apovian discusses whether fat or carbohydrate overfeeding is more likely to lead to the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, April 07, 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
• Fertility After Tubal Ligation — It's a Matter of 'AGE' Despite the original intent of permanent contraception, tubal sterilization regret is experienced by 2% to 26% of women.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, March 29, 2022
• House of Medicine for Rent Yale scholar Peter A. Swenson, PhD, says financial conflicts of interest plague medical societies in the United States, warping healthcare politics and jeopardizing patient care.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 29, 2022
• ACC 2022 Mandrola Previews ACC 2022 Studies on sodium restriction, fractional flow reserve, and strategies to improve patient and clinician behavior intrigue, but the best part of ACC22 is that it's largely in-person, writes John Mandrola, MD.
  theheart.org on Medscape, March 29, 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
• NSCLC e-Tumor Boards: Case 3: ALK-Rearranged NSCLC with Brain Metastasis   The third case focuses on a 65-year-old woman with ALK-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer, who had a history of prior stereotactic radiosurgery to a left parietal periventricular metastasis. The Brain Metastasis team discusses treatment management and surgery options.
  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
• Physicians Have a Duty to Treat the Enemy Some have said that pharma companies should stop doing business in Russia. This ethicist feels that would be wrong and would belie physicians' mission.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 21, 2022
• CardioMEMS Remote HF Monitoring: Resist the Spin and FOMO An expanded indication based on a dubious post hoc analysis of GUIDE-HF should not allow the CardioMEMS HF system to become the therapeutic fashion, writes John Mandrola, MD.
  theheart.org on Medscape, March 18, 2022
• Lift Lessons: Achieving Cecal Intubation in Difficult Colons   Dr David Johnson highlights some recent tips and his own strategies for achieving "lift-off" during colonoscopy.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 17, 2022