Two summers ago, in the middle of my busy shift in the emergency department, my mother called. At 85 years old and struggling with dementia, she was barely managing to live independently in the childhood home where I grew up.
One of the lessons I try to impart on my medical students and residents is the importance of humility regarding established medical knowledge. The old saying that up to half of what one learns in medical school will later turn out to be wrong isn’t far from the truth.
Early in the morning of December 13, 2023, I dragged myself to the computer at my kitchen island after a terrible night of interrupted sleep. I tried to prepare notes for my clinic scheduled later that day. Although I knew my patients well, there was much preparation that needed to be done prior to seeing them in the 30-minute appointment slots allotted.
One day, about eight years ago, when Tessa Davis' son was in kindergarten, she got a call from his school outside Little Rock, Ark. She said the school told her he had grabbed a girl's jacket in the cafeteria and twisted it – they thought he was trying to choke her.
The CDC is alerting clinicians that individuals taking anti-CD20 therapies are especially vulnerable to neuroinvasive disease from tick- and mosquito-borne viruses.
The Trump administration is looking into alternatives to the current fee-for-service-based payment system for physicians who treat Medicare patients. The request for information issued on July 14 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) noted that the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding system, on which the Medicare reimbursement program is based, is owned by the AMA.
Opioids have acquired a terrible reputation as dangerous drugs, thanks to not one, but two opioid epidemics. America’s first opioid epidemic began in the 19th century following the purification of morphine in 1804.
Physicians finishing training this year are weighing where to practice against three separate 2026 data sets — on livability, real pay and physician supply — metrics that don’t always overlap in the same geographies.
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