Medscape Blogs - Dr Kate Hitchcock

• Tenure: A System Built on Coercion Academic medicine depends on us giving away our labor for free. Why do we keep doing it?
  Medscape Blogs, April 28, 2022
• Do You Have PRRT FOMO? Targeted isotopes are kicking butt and taking names. Is your health center abreast of the crowd?
  Medscape Blogs, April 19, 2022
• Convincing Patients That You Can't 'Starve' Cancer The notion that you can starve a tumor is one of the most pervasive misconceptions among cancer patients.
  Medscape Blogs, April 12, 2022
• Match Interviews Should Stay Virtual to Be More Equitable The medical Match has always been rigged in favor of the affluent. Online interviews helped, and we should keep them.
  Medscape Blogs, April 05, 2022
• How Many Trials Does It Take to Make You Do the Right Thing? Are the radiation oncologists who are slow to adopt short-course RT for rectal cancer being prudently cautious or attentive to their own bottom line?
  Medscape Blogs, March 29, 2022
• Irrational Fear Is Killing You There is another pandemic that kills people every day. And it was completely avoidable.
  Medscape Blogs, January 28, 2022
• Keep the Face-Eating Monster at Bay People say they want a cure for cancer. Then why won't they use what we give them?
  Medscape Blogs, January 07, 2022
• Spam Filter Failure: Selling Physician Emails Equals Big $$ You delete spam email after spam email, but they just keep coming. One oncologist breaks down the time spent deleting and the realization of where it is all coming from.
  Medscape Blogs, December 09, 2021
• The Benefits and Fails of Telemedicine From sneaky snakes to in-the-buff patients, telemedicine physicians have seen it all. But the benefits of telemedicine certainly outweigh the fails.
  Medscape Blogs, October 29, 2021
• Please Keep Your Amateur Dietician Advice to Yourself Self-taught "experts" in human nutrition endanger cancer patients with their well-intentioned ideas.
  Medscape Blogs, September 30, 2021
• Healthcare vs the Grim Reaper Labeling healthcare workers as warriors against death is setting them up for failure and burnout.
  Medscape Blogs, September 23, 2021
• Breast Cancer in Black Women: Physicians Do Not Know Enough Breast cancer disproportionately limits the survival of Black women. We need to understand why.
  Medscape Blogs, September 14, 2021
• Why Every Oncologist Should Own a Classic Car An oncologist looks at how owning a classic car helps her relate to and understand her posttreatment cancer patients.
  Medscape Blogs, September 02, 2021
• What If We Could Cure Solid Cancers Without Scars? Some uninteresting cells get a glow-up when they are discovered to have a very powerful effect on scarring.
  Medscape Blogs, August 16, 2021
• Paying It Forward Has Far-Reaching Effects: A Patient's Story A heartwarming story of how one oncologist's medical skill saved someone who helps others.
  Medscape Blogs, August 11, 2021
• New Technology May Improve Medication Compliance Mistakes in medication self-administration kill thousands and cost billions every year. Help may be coming.
  Medscape Blogs, August 04, 2021
• Billboard Therapy: Doctoring vs the Dollar Skilled marketing of new treatments complicates the physician-patient relationship.
  Medscape Blogs, July 29, 2021
• Diagnostic Technology Is Great...Until It Isn't Cutting-edge diagnostics are miracles of modern medicine, but their help can come at a high price.
  Medscape Blogs, July 20, 2021
• Many Years Between Beasts Her original armor is too small for her now, but her heart knows how to join the battle.
  Medscape Blogs, July 14, 2021
• Nickel-and-Diming Cancer Patients to Death Some cancer centers are charging patients exorbitant fees just to park their cars for treatment.
  Medscape Blogs, July 08, 2021