The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is currently accepting comments regarding updates to its Common Program Requirements. A quick glance at its proposed strikeouts and additions might suggest a routine and bureaucratic exercise, far removed from the minds or priorities of busy practicing physicians.
Gastroenterologists are now offered the highest average starting salary of any physician at $654,000, surpassing orthopedic surgeons, who had led the rankings for four consecutive years.
Until recently, a Manhattanite might venture no more than a few dozen blocks to find the world’s most sophisticated cancer treatment. Cutting-edge American medicines have helped reduce the U.S. cancer death rate by about a third since 1990, and New York City hospitals deliver some of the best care in the country.
Music can serve a dual purpose in clinical care: It can help raise blood pressure in some settings and ease patient anxiety before procedures such as catheterization. Its effects are broad, engaging the brain’s reward circuitry, auditory cortex, hippocampus, and motor regions at the same time.
After Lisa Moore’s cancer treatments stopped working, the 64-year-old enrolled in a study to try out a new type of drug, one that is programmed to go after disease in cells in a novel way. “Ten months later, she went into remission.
Doctors are urging Americans aged 6 months and older to get vaccinated against the flu after an unusual early rise in cases on the West Coast that virologists are still working to understand.
Every doctor can get bogged down with an endless daily to-do list consisting of everything from pre-authorizations and prescription refill requests to handling in-box messages from the patient portal, and endless electronic health record tasks.
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