Family Medicine Perspective

• Tirzepatide: 'Exciting' and Promising in Lowering A1c   Tirzepatide is the newest player in the quest for lowering A1c in people with type 2 diabetes. Dr Anne Peters describes the novel agent -- what it can do for patients now and in the future.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 23, 2022
• Climate Change, Medical Education, and Dermatology The effects of climate change in dermatology include heat-related illness, changing patterns of vector-borne illnesses, and pollution and wildfire smoke causing flares of inflammatory skin diseases.
  Medscape Dermatology, May 23, 2022
• 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
• May 20 2022 This Week in Cardiology   Ischemia vs anatomic testing for CAD, UK-TAVI trial, TAVI for AR? and post-PCI anti-thrombotics are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 20, 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
• Why I'm Offering DMPA to Patients With Uterine Fibroids   Dr Andrew Kaunitz reviews the effectiveness of DMPA in the treatment of the most common gynecologic tumors: uterine fibroids.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, 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
• Can an NP Lose Their Job if a Doc 'Collaborator' Backs Away? A recent legal case exemplifies the difficulties posed by requirements in some states that nurse practitioners have a physician's oversight.
  Medscape Nurses, 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
• Unintentional Lessons of Third-Year Clinical Rotations Between delivering babies, running codes, and managing diabetes, there is a lot to learn from clinical rotations that I know will contribute to my future role as a resident physician.
  Medscape Blogs, May 20, 2022
• Environmental Health Is Going to Get Very Personal Sometimes it seems that not much can be done to protect the environment, but there are steps we can take to lessen the impact on our personal health and protect that of our patients.
  Endocrine Society, May 19, 2022
• How to Make Visits Run More Smoothly and Be More Productive Some symptoms are so distressing and severe that symptomatic treatment is needed, but most aren't.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 19, 2022
• The PreserFlo MicroShunt: A Conversation With Dr Ike Ahmed Dr Patel interviews Iqbal "Ike" K. Ahmed, MD, about the PreserFlo MicroShunt, an 8-mm-long tube that is inserted into the eye to help lower eye pressure in glaucoma.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, May 19, 2022
• The Latest in Movement Disorder Research   This year's AAN meeting highlighted differences in outcomes based on patients' backgrounds.
  Medscape Neurology, May 19, 2022
• Episode 3: Intermediate-Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia   Drs Gail Roboz and Pinkal Desai discuss intermediate-risk acute myeloid leukemia.
  Medscape, May 19, 2022
• Should Docs Still See Patients After They Enter the Boardroom? Many physicians are choosing to leave medicine, but these two physicians tell why doctors shouldn't cut all clinical ties.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 19, 2022
• The Stigma Associated With Mental Illness and Antidepressants Let's have an open conversation about mental illness and antidepressants.
  Medscape Blogs, May 19, 2022