Life Lessons From Death
“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. “Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with […]
Here’s A Quick Guide To Understanding Pompe Disease
First thing’s first: What is Pompe disease? Pompe disease is a rare, degenerative muscle disorder that can impact an individual’s ability to move and breathe. How does Pompe disease affect the body? Pompe disease is an inherited disorder caused by a change in the acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) gene. The change of the gene leads to […]
Opinion | Learning From the Communications Failure
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” In that classic line from the 1967 movie “Cool Hand Luke” starring Paul Newman, the warden (played by Strother Martin) points out that much better communication would keep things moving smoothly — or at least the way he wants them going. For all of us in healthcare, […]
Blood-based metabolic signature outperforms standard method for predicting diet, disease risk: The study found that machine learning techniques improved diet prediction by 10-20%
When it comes to studying food and diet, it’s difficult to know what people are eating — let alone their risk of disease caused by what they eat. Doctors and researchers usually ask people to fill out a long-from food frequency questionnaire that estimates caloric intake, food groups and nutrients. That relies on a person’s […]
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 […]
Opinion | We Get What We Incentivize
We get what we incentivize. This is a basic rule. I’d love to say it’s a basic rule of humanity, but unfortunately, I have a background in psychology, so I know it goes a lot deeper than that — it’s a basic rule of every living creature. Humans are, in many ways, just very big […]
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 […]
Persistent Lymphadenopathy and Neck Abscesses in a Healthy Boy
What was causing this previously healthy 12-year-old boy to have nasal obstruction, increasing hoarseness and difficulty speaking, tender and swollen lymph nodes on his neck and recurring deep neck abscesses? That’s the question Samantha M. Moore, BS, of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and colleagues tackled in a case reported in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head […]
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 […]
Doc Groups Unhappy With 4.5% Cut in the 2023 Medicare Fee Schedule Final Rule
WASHINGTON — Physician groups expressed concerns over what one group called a “substantial” decrease in Medicare fee-for-service physician payments under a final rule for 2023 issued Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule includes a 4.5% decrease in the conversion factor — the multiplier that Medicare […]