Patient Safety Perspective

• Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: Moving Toward a New Array of Therapeutics   "It is really refreshing and wonderful that our patients have so many more options than we had 20 years ago," says Sandra Quezada, MD, on advances in ulcerative colitis.
  Medscape, May 05, 2022
• Therapies 'Not Used Enough' in Patients With T2D and CVD Risk   Dr Anne Peters discusses a paper demonstrating the low use of appropriate therapies in patients with type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular risk.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 04, 2022
• Paxlovid Is Here: A Pharmacist's Prescribing Pearls An effective oral medication for COVID-19 is now available. Michael Ganio, PharmD, offers tips on how to prescribe it safely, where to find it in your area, and how it works with the Test to Treat program.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 03, 2022
• The Case for 'Safe' Step Therapy   David Kerr discusses step therapy, focusing on the potential to provide more access to innovative cancer medicines globally.
  Medscape Oncology, May 02, 2022
• Cancer Data Reproducibility Problem Undermines Public Trust   Dr Maurie Markman discusses problems with the replicability of research published in high-impact medical journals and the potential implications.
  Medscape Oncology, April 27, 2022
• Think About Antibiotics Like We Think About Chemotherapy Healthcare providers can be somewhat cavalier about ordering antibiotics. Maybe if we thought about antibiotics like we think about chemotherapy, we'd do better with our prescribing practices.
  Medscape Blogs, April 27, 2022
• Managing Migraine in Primary Care: 5 Things to Know Key aspects and practical tips about migraine diagnosis and treatment for primary care physicians.
  American Headache Society and Medscape, April 25, 2022
• RaDonda Vaught: Victim, Felon, or Both? An experienced nurse discusses the implications of the RaDonda Vaught guilty verdict for nurses who may be angry or fearful for the future.
  Medscape Blogs, April 21, 2022
• Health Quality: Protecting Patients and Clinicians From Medical Errors Medical errors take thousands of lives annually while imposing exorbitant economic costs. Designing more effective and human-centered approaches can improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
  Medscape Blogs, April 20, 2022
• Are All Medical Errors Now Crimes? The Nurse Vaught Verdict   Drs Robert Glatter, Jane Barnsteiner, and Megan Ranney discuss medical errors related to medication dispensing, inspired by a recent event.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 13, 2022
• Testing and Treating Can Help Normalize COVID and Daily Life As tests and good treatments for COVID become widely and easily available, people should be increasingly comfortable with more normal activities if they know that tests and treatments are accessible.
  Medscape Blogs, April 08, 2022
• ACC 2022 Mavacamten in HCM: Reasons for Optimism and Caution The novel drug helped patients avoid septal reduction therapy in the short term and approval looks likely, but more details and longer-term safety data will be needed before broader use, writes John Mandrola, MD.
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 02, 2022
• Breast Cancer Therapy Toxicities: Education and Communication   Drs Hope Rugo and Fatima Cardoso discuss treatment toxicities and patient communication with Julia Maués and Sheila Pettiford, who are both living with metastatic breast cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, March 31, 2022
• It May Be Time to Ban Kids From Social Media   When it comes down to it, do kids really need social media? What purpose does it serve?
  Medscape, March 29, 2022
• Medscape Internist Malpractice Report 2021 Read about internists' malpractice experiences and the latest lawsuit trends discovered in our 2021 survey.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, March 22, 2022
• Medscape Family Physician Malpractice Report 2021 Read about family physicians' malpractice experiences and the latest lawsuit trends discovered in our 2021 survey.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, March 22, 2022
• Pain in Vain or Flexible Prescribing? CDC's Draft Opioid Guidance With this proposed update, CDC seeks to restore physician autonomy and balance in pain management, but has the pendulum swung too far in the direction of "never opioids"?
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, March 22, 2022
• Shingles Vaccination for Immunocompromised Adults In January 2022, CDC updated recommendations for shingles vaccination to include people 19 years and older who are or will be immunocompromised.
  CDC Expert Commentary, March 22, 2022
• Waiting for the Under-5 COVID-19 Vaccine It is difficult to know how many parents will eventually immunize their young children once the vaccine is approved.
  Medscape Pediatrics, March 18, 2022
• What Benefits Arise From Early Failure When we embrace failure, medical students have much to gain.
  Medscape Blogs, March 03, 2022