Commentary
Commentary
Disenfranchised grief: What it looks like, where it goes
Disenfranchised grief, the grief that is hard to share and often seems wrong to feel in the first place, can be triggered in many situations.
Opinion
A White male presented with a purulent erythematous edematous plaque with central necrosis and ulceration on his right flank
The patient also had flulike symptoms and a headache.
Commentary
Should people who play sports pay higher medical insurance premiums?
I don’t like a society where anybody who tries to do something that takes risk winds up bearing extra cost for doing that.
Commentary
The new normal in body temperature
Studies have actually shown that body temperature may be decreasing over time in humans.
Commentary
Can a decrease in dopamine lead to binge eating?
Often, the strong urge to binge subsides rapidly once ADHD is properly treated.
Commentary
The most important study from ESC: FRAIL-AF
This is the kind of science that medicine should celebrate. There were no soft endpoints, financial conflicts, or spin.
Commentary
Mammography breast density reporting: What it means for clinicians
Should this be something that we talk to patients about, utilizing shared decision-making to decide about whether follow-up testing is necessary...
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Really? Cancer screening doesn’t save lives?
The screening tests are unlikely to help most people because most people will not die of the particular type of cancer being screened for. But it...
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Cruel summer for medical students and Taylor Swift fans
Medical students applying for residency tend to be as stressed out as Swifties trying to score concert tickets.
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Answering the protein question when prescribing plant-based diets
To ensure that patients have all the facts when making dietary decisions, clinicians need to be prepared to respond to concerns about protein...
Commentary
It’s not ‘reckless’ to consider Ozempic
We are not giving a dangerous treatment (e.g., fen-phen) that increases cardiovascular risk – quite the contrary, in fact.