(MedPage Today) — While it’s sometimes hard to admit I’m wrong, I can say that I’ve had a change of heart about an issue related to the automated answers to patient-generated questions on the patient portal within our electronic medical record… Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — “We don’t have to live like this, but unless we take it seriously, we’ll die like this.” — Mark Rosenberg, MD, MPP, founding director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, after signing an open letter… Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — I saw a patient a few years ago who had come to me because he had been using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), despite not having diabetes, and was worried about what he called “glucose spikes” after he ate. He said he didn… Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — About a year ago, I finished chemotherapy after 10 years of fighting cancer and began what’s called “maintenance.” That meant infusions every 6 weeks and taking a pill twice a day every day for 2 years. This was not without its… Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — I did something recently that shocked my medical colleagues: I turned down a medication specifically offered to me because I’m Black. My obstetrician had just offered me aspirin during pregnancy — not because of my age, blood… Powered by WPeMatico
HHS through ACF terminated California’s PREP grant after the state refused to remove radical gender ideology from the federally-funded program. Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — Imagine an emergency department (ED) on December 26. Like many EDs, staffing ratios have been set by the facility’s administration, and some clinicians have expressed concern they are inadequate. On this particular morning, patients… Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — A new wellness ritual is going viral. But at what cost to health and life? Originally practiced by Indigenous tribes of the Amazon, the Kambo ritual involves applying the toxic secretion of the giant monkey frog (Phyllomedusa… Powered by WPeMatico
