NADIA SABRI, MD | PHYSICIAN | APRIL 25, 2019 Being a doctor mom is a beautiful paradox of feeling like a badass one moment and a frazzled I-don’t-know-what-the-heck-I-am-doing mess of a person. Being a female physician, the majority of us feel there is a societal [...]
BY JAMIE DUCHARME APRIL 29, 2019 Unvaccinated individuals have been the focus of attention during this year’s measles outbreaks. A record 704 cases of the illness have been confirmed in 22 states so far in 2019, and the CDC says the majority of those diagnoses [...]
6 things wrong with hospital medicine DAVID M. MITCHELL, MD, PHD | PHYSICIAN | SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 In 2002, when I began my first hospitalist job, I was a dyed-in-the-wool hospital medicine convert, convinced that the transfer of inpatient care to true specialists in hospital [...]
BY JAMIE DUCHARME UPDATED: APRIL 17, 2019 10:08 AM ET | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: MARCH 26, 2019 Officials in New York’s Rockland County are banning people who have been diagnosed with measles out of public places and keeping improperly vaccinated children out of [...]
ERIN MCADAMS, MD | PHYSICIAN | APRIL 8, 2019 Work-life balance is hard, and that’s true for so many career options both in and out of the medical field. The topic is something that you consider as you choose a career path. It’s something that [...]
KevinMD Plus: Mar 30, 2019 10 things I’ve learned 10 years after I finished medical school 1. Our health care system is broken, and there isn’t going to be an easy way out. Costs are too high and our outcomes [...]
BY ALICE PARK MARCH 18, 2019 Experts have issued a new set of guidelines on the best ways to prevent first heart attacks, strokes and heart failure — and for the first time, they focus squarely on the patient. The new guidelines [...]
BY AMANDA MACMILLAN MARCH 25, 2019 It’s hardly news that the gastrointestinal tract is important to human health: It transports food from the mouth to the stomach, converts it into absorbable nutrients and stored energy, and shuttles waste back out of the body. If [...]
BY JAMIE DUCHARME AND KATIE REILLY MARCH 25, 2019 A pair of recent suicide deaths in Parkland, Fla., serve as a stark reminder of the lingering effects of trauma — and underscore the importance of providing long-term support to those who are living with [...]