Pediatrics Perspective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Episode 3: Intermediate-Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia   Drs Gail Roboz and Pinkal Desai discuss intermediate-risk acute myeloid leukemia.
  Medscape, May 19, 2022
• The Mental Effects of Growing Up With a Hoarder Medscape interviews psychologist Dr Andrew Gulick about the long-term mental health risks of growing up in a house with a hoarder.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 18, 2022
• One Million COVID Cases a Day? We're Already There   Perry Wilson explains why we are way, way underestimating the number of COVID cases in this country.
  Medscape, May 18, 2022
• What We Must Do to Lower Healthcare Costs for Seniors Disruption and innovation fuel healthcare progress today, but something is severely wrong.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 18, 2022
• Student Loan Forgiveness Plans Exclude Physicians President Biden's administration is zeroing in on a plan for student loan forgiveness in the lead-up to the midterm elections. Why aren't doctors being included?
  Medscape Blogs, May 17, 2022
• Medscape Pediatrician Compensation Report 2022 Medscape's Pediatrician 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
• Yes, Say Gay: Small Steps to Improving LGBTQ+ Patient Care One psychologist discusses how the US healthcare system fails the LGBTQ+ community and offers ways to address this in the clinic.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 13, 2022
• Will an Algorithm Save Our Butts in Sepsis?   "Don't tune out about conversations on artificial intelligence in healthcare," says Dr Alok Patel.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, May 12, 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
• Running to the Top: Exercise and Mental Health The secret to a healthy life? Exercise.
  Medscape Blogs, May 12, 2022
• Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescent Patients: What You Need to Know Here we will review the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of anorexia, with an emphasis on what pediatricians need to know to screen and to facilitate treatment.
  Medscape Pediatrics, 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
• New HIV PrEP Guidelines This update gives healthcare providers the latest guidance on prescribing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) -- a powerful tool for HIV prevention -- to their patients.
  CDC Expert Commentary, May 11, 2022
• Episode 1: Novel Treatments in MDD: Ketamine and Esketamine   Madhukar Trivedi, MD, and Manish Jha, MD, MBBS, review the evidence on the efficacy of esketamine and ketamine as a treatment for major depressive disorder.
  Medscape, May 11, 2022
• Online Physician Reviews: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly More patients are finding their healthcare providers online on the basis of physician reviews and ratings. But what if those results are completely misleading or inaccurate?
  Medscape Blogs, May 11, 2022