Commentary
Commentary
AI in medicine has a major Cassandra problem
A prediction is useless if it is wrong, for sure. But it’s also useless if you don’t tell anyone about it.
Commentary
Debate: Is lasting remission of type 2 diabetes feasible in the real-world setting?
Dr. Taylor suggested that we not label these individuals who have lost significant weight as having prediabetes. Instead “postdiabetes” should be...
Commentary
Making time to care for patients with diabetes
Incorporate "diabetes only" appointments into your schedule, and don't get caught in therapeutic inertia.
The Optimized Doctor
Suits or joggers? A doctor’s dress code
As a new doc out of residency, I used to wear a tie and shoes that could hold a shine. Now I wear jogger scrubs and sneakers.
Commentary
Trading one’s eggs for a service discount raises tough issues, says ethicist
In a sense, she’s being coerced, perhaps – I’m going to put it glibly – to sell cheaply. She probably is getting undervalue, even though she needs...
Commentary
How PCPs are penalized for positive outcomes from lifestyle change
For this change to be successful, it is vital that lifestyle behavior interventions ... become the foundation of universal quality measures.
Commentary
Male patients with breast cancer: Special considerations and gender-specific concerns
Even the materials that we have are gender specific. I think those things all together can certainly contribute to a man feeling like a fish out...
Commentary
Atopic dermatitis: Five things to know
The incidence of AD has increased over the past several decades, and environmental factors such as climate change have been implicated as a...
Opinion
A 42-year-old woman presented with a few days of erosions on her buccal mucosa, tongue, and soft palate
The patient had no other lesions on the rest of her body and was given high-dose corticosteroids with no resolution.
Commentary
RVUs: A fair measure of your productivity?
You want to have a sense of the pros and cons of working in an RVU system and how this relates to your specialty, your practice, and your schedule...
Commentary
‘Vaginal dryness’ can be fatal. No, really.
The thing that kills women is recurrent urinary tract infections.