Emergency Physician Faces Charges After Car Crash Kills Colleague
An emergency medicine physician is facing a myriad of charges following a car accident in July that claimed the life of his 47-year-old colleague, Douglas Rockacy, MD, from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), CBS Pittsburgh reported. In addition to DUI charges, Joseph Yanta, MD, 38, is also facing charges of homicide by vehicle […]
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 […]
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 […]
Is a Winter COVID Surge Ahead?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the week. Topics include winter COVID […]
Sedentary lifestyle and sugary diet more detrimental to men: Study involved short-term exposure to reduced activity and increased sugar consumption
A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine is the first evidence in humans that short-term lifestyle changes can disrupt the response to insulin of blood vessels. It’s also the first study to show men and women react differently to these changes. Vascular insulin resistance is a feature of obesity and type […]
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. […]
Why late-night eating leads to weight gain, diabetes: Health benefits come from eating during the daytime, demonstrating a potential link to energy release
Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered the mechanism behind why eating late at night is linked to weight gain and diabetes. The connection between eating time, sleep and obesity is well-known but poorly understood, with research showing that over-nutrition can disrupt circadian rhythms and change fat tissue. New Northwestern research has shown for the first time […]
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 […]
Which Kids Can Now Get Omicron Booster Shots?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the week. Topics include FDA’s broader […]
Concussion Expert’s Papers Retracted
The British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM), a BMJ publication, is retracting nine more non-research articles authored by former editor-in chief and concussion researcher Paul McCrory, MBBS, PhD, of the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia. Expressions of concern will be placed on another 38 articles published in BMJ journals on […]