A Day in the Life of a Doctor: Code Blue Emergency
[embedded content] Join medical resident Siobhan Deshauer, MD, for a night shift in the intensive care unit. She’ll be caring for critically ill patients, solving medical mysteries, intubating a patient who cannot breathe, and reacting to a code blue emergency. Following is a rough transcript (Note that errors are possible): Siobhan Deshauer, MD: Code blue, […]
My Journey to the Root of Empathy
“Are there specific ways empathy will be tested in the standardized patient exam?” a medical school classmate of mine earnestly asked following a lecture years ago. I laughed, thinking that teaching empathy was impossible. As an optimistic and naive medical student, I had thought of myself as naturally empathetic. During those days, I was able […]
Survey: Two-thirds of Female Orthopedic Trainees Report Sexual Harassment
More than two-thirds of U.S. female orthopedic medical trainees said they experienced sexual harassment on the job, and current residents are experiencing the same level of abuse as veteran physicians did years ago, a researcher reported. In a 2019 online survey to 682 members of the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society — a support and networking […]
Wild COVID Vaccine Myths
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UNMC Mourns Surgeon Killed in Plane Crash
The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha is mourning the tragic loss of one of their own. James Edney, MD, a professor emeritus in the department of surgery and former chief of the division of surgical oncology, died August 7 in a small plane crash in Minnesota, the medical school announced, citing a […]
‘It Was Complete Chaos’: What We Heard This Week
“It was complete chaos.” — Wajiha Jurdi Kheir, MD, an ophthalmologist at American University of Beirut Medical Center, describing her experience treating patients after last year’s blast at the nearby Port of Beirut in Lebanon. “We’ve had this flat ‘there’s no evidence boosters are indicated’ message. The messaging should be, ‘yes, we’re going to need […]
Does COAPT Change the Need to Try Foundational HF Drugs in Functional MR?
Clinicians agreed on the need for an overhaul of the heart failure guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) titration process during a debate on a different question: whether patients with functional mitral regurgitation (MR) should exhaust all options before they try transcatheter repair. JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, asserted that taking appropriate […]
Private Equity Is Ruining American Healthcare
For-profit insurance companies have long been regarded as the ultimate offenders in medical profiteering. However, they distract from the unscrupulous involvement of private equity (PE) in medicine, a similarly culpable and even more insidious economic titan. PE is a unique, unregulated investment platform with the objective of aggressively generating short-term revenue for the firm and […]
When You Ignore My Gender, You Dehumanize Me
“What are you?” asks the medical assistant as he checks me in for my COVID-19 swab. As a medical student, I am routinely tested for COVID-19. “What do you mean?” My chest tightens, warning me of what’s to come. He looks exasperated, hands hovering over his keyboard. “Look. Are you a man or woman? I […]
Parents of children with complex medical conditions more likely to have mental health issues: More support is recommended from healthcare systems and federal and state policy
Parents of children with the most complex medical conditions are more likely to report poor or fair mental health and struggle to find community help, according to a study completed by researchers at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and Golisano Children’s Hospital. The study was published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy […]