Love and Mercy in the ICU
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. The ICU can be a traumatizing place for patients, who are frequently heavily sedated, rendered unable to […]
Researchers gain a better understanding of how the most commonly used ADHD medication works
For decades, doctors have treated kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with methylphenidate, a stimulant drug sold as Ritalin and Concerta, making it one of the most widely prescribed medications aimed at the central nervous system. One might expect that researchers would know how methylphenidate works in the brain by now, but little is known about […]
On Vision and the Arts
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. Few would dispute that vision is just about our most important sense. At least from a neurophysiological […]
Confronting Inhumanity Through Medicine
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. When it comes to medical humanitarianism, there is no bigger name than Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also […]
On Moral Injury and Emotions in Medicine
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. As one of the most prolific and acclaimed physician-writers today, Danielle Ofri, MD, is the author of […]
Finding Meaning After Loss
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified the five stages of dying in her book, On Death and Dying. […]
Reimagining Aging and Later Life
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. Advances in modern medicine mean a greater proportion of people today will live well into old age […]
Electronic health record tool can help children achieve healthy weight
An electronic health record (EHR) program to help primary care doctors address child obesity is an effective tool to promote positive body mass index (BMI) trends, especially among young children with obesity, according to a new University of Missouri School of Medicine study that examined the effectiveness of the FitTastic tool over an average follow-up […]
Doc Groups Ask Congress to Extend Payment Bonus for Alternative Payment Models
WASHINGTON — Congress must extend Medicare’s payment bonus to doctors participating in alternative payment models (APMs) to incentivize them to continue, doctors and health policy experts said Thursday at a Capitol Hill briefing. “It’s not like you can go from fee-for-service today and then jump into an APM tomorrow,” said Kisha Davis, MD, MPH, vice […]
Clinicians Need More Training in Nutrition Education and Spotting Hunger, Biden Says
WASHINGTON — Doctors and other clinicians need more training on how to recognize hunger symptoms and to teach patients about proper nutrition, President Biden said Wednesday. Guidance to Stay Healthy “In 19 states, more than 35% of adults are obese,” Biden said at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, which was held […]