Medical Students Perspective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• At What Point Does Comfort Care Become Murder?   Drs Robert Glatter, Ferdinando Mirarchi, Lewis Nelson, and Thaddeus Pope discuss a recent legal case and how it may affect end-of-life care moving forward.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, May 18, 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
• 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
• A1c, Blood Pressure Fluctuations Predict Fracture Risk Dr Plotzker reviews new studies linking glycemic control and blood pressure variations to fractures in older populations.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, 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
• 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-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder   A 22-year-old woman with a history of major depression presents at the emergency department with new-onset suicidal ideation after the breakup of a relationship. Her current medications are evaluated and considerations for her follow-up care and treatment options are discussed.
  Medscape, May 17, 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
• 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
• When Words Are Not Enough A psychologist shares her experience exploring a common thread tying patient and provider together.
  Medscape Blogs, May 16, 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
• Exploring Paxlovid as a Treatment Option for COVID-19   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, discusses the antiviral drug called Paxlovid and the U.S. government's new nationwide COVID-19 Test to Treat initiative.
  WebMD, May 12, 2022