Opinion | Prisoner First, Patient Second
Resnick is an internal medicine resident. Spencer is an internal medicine physician and assistant professor of medicine. As physicians at one of the largest public hospitals in the country, we have left some patient interactions feeling demoralized. This occurs most often when it is clear that medical interventions are incapable of overcoming the structural violence […]
Opinion | Healthcare’s North Star Should Be Better Health
Parekh is an internal medicine physician and health policy advisor. Myriad challenges exist for today’s healthcare leaders: tight supply chains, high labor costs, payment reforms, growth in new technologies, artificial intelligence, disruptive competitors, and the prospect of a rising number of uninsured Americans. But there’s a greater challenge than all of these: America’s declining health. […]
Opinion | A Letter From a Miami Jail to the American Board of Internal Medicine
Sekeres is a leukemia specialist. American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Philadelphia, PA Dear ABIM, In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King, Jr. — both of whom penned essays while they were serving jail time — and in follow-up to the previous letters I scribed from a Cleveland jail, I write […]
Day in the Life of a Doctor: Treating a Patient With Septic Shock
[embedded content] Join internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, and her husband, as they spend the day in a hospital covering for a physician shortage. Following is a partial transcript (note that errors are possible): Deshauer: Hey, guys. I’m Siobhan, an internal medicine and rheumatology specialist. Today I’m working in the hospital with […]
Day in the Life of a Doctor: On Call With My Husband
[embedded content] Join internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, as she spends a week working at a hospital with her husband, Mark, an emergency medicine physician and hospitalist. Following is a transcript (note that errors are possible): Deshauer: Hey, guys. I’m Siobhan, an internal medicine and rheumatology specialist. Mark: I’m Mark, an emergency […]
Day in the Life of a Doctor: Shadowing a Flight Paramedic
[embedded content] Join internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, as she shadows a flight paramedic team. (Following is a transcript. Note that errors are possible.) Deshauer: Hey, guys. I’m Siobhan, an internal medicine and rheumatology specialist. Today, I’m joining flight paramedics as they rescue and transport critically ill patients in helicopters. Engineers: Aircraft-wise, […]
How tissues form complex shapes that enable organ function
From the smooth tubes of our arteries and veins to the textured pockets of our internal organs, our bodies are made of tissues arranged in complex shapes that aid in performing specific functions. But how do cells fold themselves so precisely into such complicated configurations during development? What are the fundamental forces driving this process? […]
Après the Pandemic, the Deluge
If it’s not COVID-19, what else could it be? There’s an old joke in internal medicine about a large team rounding on an inpatient cardiology service, consisting of multiple medical students, interns, residents, fellows, and an elderly senior attending. After a long and detailed presentation of an overnight admission by the post-call intern, the attending […]
Gut and heart signals affect how we see ourselves: Study: Weak internal connections linked to body shame and weight preoccupation
New research has discovered that the strength of the connection between our brain and internal organs is linked to how we feel about our appearance. Published in the journal Cortex, the study is the first to investigate, and first to identify, the association between body image and the brain’s processing of internal signals that occur […]
Do ‘Robots’ Offer Any Clear Surgical Advantage?
A new meta-analysis in the Annals of Internal Medicine assessed the quality of evidence and outcomes of robot-assisted surgery compared with laparoscopy and open surgery in adults. In this exclusive video, Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, breaks down the study and explains why he believes our technological advances need to actually improve patient outcomes in order […]