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• 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
• How to Move From Defensive to 'I Have This!' An experienced nurse provides scenarios in which effective communication avoids confrontation and frustration despite an overwhelming workload.
  Medscape Blogs, May 18, 2022
• You vs Us: Whom Did COVID Vaccines Protect?   Throwing a spanner into the hopes for high levels of population immunity.
  Medscape, May 04, 2022
• The Gridiron Club Dinner Was a Predictable Superspreader Event Relying on people being "thoughtful about their own risks and the risks they pose to others" is absurd and throws the vulnerable under the bus.
  Medscape Blogs, April 13, 2022
• Transpulmonary Pressure Measurement: A Waste of Time? Transpulmonary Pressure Measurement: The Key to Protecting the Lung, or an Abstract Waste of Time?
  Medscape Critical Care, March 17, 2022
• Invasive Mold in Patients With COVID-19 COVID-19 is likely to increase the risk for pulmonary aspergillosis and mucormycosis, life-threatening infections caused by environmental molds.
  CDC Expert Commentary, March 03, 2022
• The Must-Read Acute Care Medicine Articles From 2021 Dr Amal Mattu discusses his top picks for the most important acute care literature of the past year. What are your picks?
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, January 28, 2022
• Pneumonia in the Shadow of COVID-19: They Tried to Make Me Go to Rehab   Recognized experts in acute pulmonary care discuss the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation for patients recovering from CAP, including COVID pneumonia.
  Medscape TV, December 20, 2021
• Interferon Beta Therapeutic May Soon Join the Fight Against COVID-19   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks in more detail with Richard Marsden, CEO of Synairgen, about the clinical trial of their Interferon beta therapeutic for COVID-19.
  WebMD, December 16, 2021
• 'It's Deconditioning, Stupid': Exercise Limitations After COVID Dr Aaron Holley investigates whether deconditioning is responsible for all post-COVID activity limitations.
  Medscape Critical Care, November 24, 2021
• Pneumonia in the Shadow of COVID-19: In Sickness and in Health   Experts discuss the challenges of managing a patient’s protracted journey from acute pneumonia to pulmonary rehabilitation, including ways to help restore function and independence.
  Medscape TV, November 11, 2021
• Pneumonia in the Shadow of COVID-19: Along Came COVID   Infectious disease experts describe ways in which COVID pneumonia differs from community-acquired pneumonia and how COVID vaccines may offer protective effects.
  Medscape TV, October 08, 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
• An Ethics Challenge in Hospital Medicine It is important not to force a premature resolution of the situation through unilateral or coercive decisions.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, August 20, 2021
• COVID-19 and Liver Disease: Answering the Key Questions A trove of new data is bringing clarity regarding the impact of COVID-19 on patients with liver disease, although there's still much to learn.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, August 18, 2021
• The Delta Variant in Schools: Is Rapid Testing the Answer?   The Delta variant is highly transmissible, with the CDC likening its infectiousness to that of chicken pox. Will we find a way to safely return children to school this fall?
  Medscape, August 04, 2021
• Pneumonia in the Shadow of COVID-19   Leading pulmonary specialists from the University of Louisville explain the burden of community-acquired pneumonia in older adults and reflect on complications caused by COVID-19.
  Medscape TV, July 01, 2021
• Has the U.S. Entered a Fourth Wave?   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Eric Topol, MD, Executive VP, Scripps Research, Editor-in-Chief, Medscape, about the fourth wave of the pandemic that the United States may be facing.
  WebMD, April 12, 2021
• It's Okay to Overreact: Devi Sridhar Shares COVID's Humbling Lesson   Global health expert Devi Sridhar discusses with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese how the countries that took the threat seriously from the get-go have fared better in loss of life and economic recovery.
  Medscape, March 18, 2021
• COVID-Related ARDS May Not Be So Different After All   Angela Rogers on COVID-related ARDS, how ICU COVID care has changed over the months, and why it is a privilege to be an ICU doctor during COVID.
  Medscape, February 03, 2021