Internal Medicine Perspective

• DIY Fingernail Surgery for Seborrheic Keratoses Dr Lundberg presents long-term follow-up of his personal technique to remove these benign lesions.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, October 22, 2021
• Hindsight Is 20/20 When It Comes to COVID-19 For one ophthalmologist, there was a silver lining to COVID: how the pandemic helped reframe her mindset.
  Medscape Blogs, October 22, 2021
• Episode 2: Pandemic Flips Script on Patient-Partnered Dyslipidemia Care   Dr Laurence Sperling and guests talk about how COVID confinement affected patient-partnered dyslipidemia care, causing clinical teams to innovate.
  Medscape, October 21, 2021
• Episode 1: Familial Hypercholesterolemia -- Hiding in Plain Sight   In this episode of Medscape InDiscussion: Dyslipidemia, host Dr Laurence Sperling speaks with Katherine Wilemon, founder of the FH Foundation.
  Medscape, October 21, 2021
• 'Game the System' to Boost Vaccination Rates -- Why Not?   This could be a way of getting through to the vaccine hesitant, suggests Dr F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, October 20, 2021
• Sleep Apnea Has Many Faces A 62-year-old patient was forgetting things and was worried she might be developing dementia.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, October 20, 2021
• The Persistent Impact of Atherosclerosis Despite advances in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, challenges remain.
  theheart.org on Medscape, October 20, 2021
• 13 New Recommendations for Managing Colorectal Dysplasia in IBD Dr David Johnson highlights the AGA's recent practice-changing tips for detecting and treating colorectal cancer in these high-risk patients.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, October 20, 2021
• Dr Ebony Hilton Wants to Talk Herself Out of a Job   If you want her to stop talking about racial and gender disparities in healthcare, fix the system.
  Medscape, October 20, 2021
• Clinical Advances in Atopic Dermatitis From EADV 2021   Advances in atopic dermatitis from EADV 2021 include monoclonal antibodies targeting OX40, symptom control with ruxolitinib cream, and benefits of delgocitinib cream, as discussed by Prof Alan Irvine.
  Medscape, October 20, 2021
• Abandoned? Harassed? How Patients View Family Visits Both of my patients had families who made visits to their loved one a priority. But neither patient was happy. They had different reasons for that.
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 20, 2021
• Is It Ethical to Turn Away New Patients Who Refuse Vaccination? Neurologist Dr Andrew Wilner and medical ethicist Dr Ronald Pies on what physician guidelines can tell us about taking on unvaccinated patients.
  Medscape Neurology, October 20, 2021
• Substance Use or Substance Use Disorder: A Question of Judgment The tricky decisions around managing substance abuse in the emergency department.
  Medscape Psychiatry, October 20, 2021
• An Integrated Response to Surfside: Lessons Learned Setting a psychotherapeutic framework in the aftermath of a tragedy.
  Medscape Psychiatry, October 20, 2021
• Obesity in Patients with Heart Failure and LV Assist Devices A look at best management strategies for patients with this condition.
  ACC.org, October 20, 2021
• CRC Screening: Which Test Is Best?   The Curbsiders review the practice implications of new recommendations for CRC screening at an earlier age.
  The Curbsiders, October 19, 2021
• Lost Your COVID-19 Vaccine Card?   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, provides details about what to do if you have lost your COVID-19 vaccine card.
  WebMD, October 19, 2021
• Antibiotic Use During COVID-19 Stewardship programs are critical for optimizing patient safety, and there are opportunities to optimize antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  CDC Expert Commentary, October 19, 2021
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Death of the Linear Career Path A career in medicine will often follow a predictable sequence of events. Can this sequence be disrupted and still result in success?
  Medscape Blogs, October 19, 2021
• USPSTF Statement on Aspirin: Poor Messaging at Best Could the messaging around the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's draft aspirin recommendations put some patients who likely benefit at risk?
  theheart.org on Medscape, October 19, 2021