Neurosurgery Perspective

• AANS 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AANS 2022
  Medscape Neurology, May 04, 2022
• How Gender-Affirming Care Is Provided to Adolescents in the US In a sample of trans adults (n = 27,715), 10% started to realize they were transgender at age 5 or younger, 16% between ages 6 and 10, 28% between 11 and 15, 29% between 16 and 20, and 18% at age 21 or older.
  Medscape Pediatrics, April 25, 2022
• New Books on Medicine A few recommendations to fill your nightstand with interesting medicine-related books.
  Medscape Blogs, April 25, 2022
• 3 Novels You Must Read (For Fun) Before Graduating Medical School Reading for fun isn’t often on the top of our to-do lists as medical students. But with more free time, I’ve found a few medical novels that offered insights into medicine and patient care.
  Medscape Blogs, April 15, 2022
• Neurology Has a Public Image Problem Practicing neurology in 2022 is less "diagnose and adios" and more "localize and optimize."
  Medscape Blogs, March 02, 2022
• Why Exposure to Specialties Should Begin Early in Med School How med students can improve their basic understanding of specialties and subspecialties in the first 2 years of medical training.
  Medscape Blogs, February 24, 2022
• The Best Crystalloid for the Critically Ill Dr Aaron Holley reviews the recent literature comparing crystalloid formulations used in critically ill patients.
  Medscape Critical Care, February 08, 2022
• Apparently No One Read My Patients Notes, but I'm Not Surprised Neurologist Allan Block, MD, recalls a case where human nature led to an error, not the EHR.
  Medscape Neurology, February 02, 2022
• Rocket Scientists and Neurosurgeons: Who's Smarter?   The basis for the age-old phrases "it's not brain surgery" and "it's not rocket science" is put to the test in this intelligence study reviewed by Dr F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, December 13, 2021
• Opioid-Induced Adrenal Insufficiency for the Hospitalist Opioid-induced adrenal insufficiency is an underrecognized cause of central adrenal insufficiency.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, October 27, 2021
• AANS 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AANS 2021
  Medscape Neurology, August 23, 2021
• The New 5-Minute Concussion Test Along with a video demonstration, CHOP's Dr Daniel Corwin tells Medscape how this rapid clinical test, known as the VVE, has both diagnostic and prognostic value in youth concussion.
  CHOP Expert Commentary, August 11, 2021
• ECG Challenge: Irregular Rhythms After Head Trauma After a traumatic brain injury, a man's telemetry shows pauses in his heart rhythm. What does the ECG reveal?
  Medscape Cardiology, August 04, 2021
• Strange Object Lodged in Patient's Spine, Yet Jury Clears MD A trial reveals the source of a mysterious object left in a patient.
  Cooperative of American Physicians, July 12, 2021
• Concussion in Kids: Why Rest May Not Be Best   The Cribsiders reflect on the big changes that have taken place in the recommendations for pediatric mild traumatic brain injury.
  The Cribsiders, June 15, 2021
• Organ Harvesting's Troubled Past — and Complicated Present With the rise of organ transplantation came difficult ethical questions on race, economics, and the meaning of life.
  Undark, April 15, 2021
• 6 Neurology Updates to Know   Dr Christoph Diener highlights the recent literature, including a promising study from the team behind BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine.
  Medscape Neurology, March 22, 2021
• Fixing the Match Crisis Starts With Capping Interviews Concern about the so-called 'Match crisis' has risen. A cap on interviews won't fix everything, but here's why it should be the first step in solving problems with the residency application process.
  Medscape Med Students, March 01, 2021
• 'Living Brain Implants' May Restore Stroke Mobility A conversation with Dr Mijail Serruya, the principal investigator behind an enticing proof-of-concept study that offers a possible technological solution to improve poststroke mobility.
  Medscape Neurology, February 22, 2021
• Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Promoting Brain Health in Your Patients   Dr Gupta, in conversation with Dr Richard Isaacson, on the lessons learned while writing his latest book on the many cognitive upsides to brain-building.
  Medscape Neurology, February 02, 2021