Commentary
Commentary
Why people lie about COVID
Of those surveyed, 41.6% admitted that they lied about COVID or didn’t adhere to COVID guidelines – a conservative estimate, if you ask me.
Commentary
The winding road that leads to optimal temperature management after cardiac arrest
Today’s life-saving intervention proves harmful tomorrow, but withholding it may constitute malpractice a few months down the road.
Commentary
Could a vaccine (and more) fix the fentanyl crisis?
The first human trial is underway right now for a vaccine against oxycodone. Not only that, but there are other vaccines that are in animal trials...
Feature
How do you live with COVID? One doctor’s personal experience
Early in 2020, Anne Peters, MD, caught COVID-19. The author of Medscape’s “Peters on Diabetes” column was sick in March 2020 before state-mandated...
Commentary
‘I missed it’: Coping with medical error
I can recall memorable moments from my training when I came to understand that what I initially perceived to be a mistake was instead part of the...
Commentary
Saddled with med school debt, yet left out of loan forgiveness plans
Drawing an income line inappropriately restricts those in health care from receiving any forgiveness.
Commentary
Legal abortion is a matter of public health
Each year, around 60,000 women worldwide die as a result of an unsafe voluntary termination of pregnancy. That’s one woman every 9 minutes.
Opinion
Good news, bad news
Anecdotal evidence about weight gain and a decline in fitness point to the conclusion that when children are no longer in school, they settle into...
Commentary
What are your weaknesses?
What would it look like if we started treating ourselves less like physicians and more like patients?
Commentary
Ten steps for clinicians to avoid being racist: The Francis commitment
The scars never go away and your status is always in question, no matter your title or uniforms of respect. Eventually it wears you down.
Commentary
Student loan forgiveness plans exclude physicians
Further weakening forgiveness plans for physicians has been two caps proposed by the administration in recent days.