January 6, 2020
(BBC) – Making end of life plans and discussing death can be difficult for many and taboo for some. But about 100 people each year in Northern Ireland make a conscious decision, hoping their death can benefit others. They decide … Read More
December 31, 2019
(Medical Xpress) – A medical student from China who U.S. authorities say tried to smuggle cancer research material taken from a Boston hospital out of the country has been held without bail by a judge who ruled he was a … Read More
November 26, 2019
(Reuters) – A growing number of doctors in training have psychological disorders and chronic health problems, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers analyzed data on disabilities reported by students at 64 U.S. medical schools in 2016 and 2019. The proportion of … Read More
September 30, 2019
(STAT News) – Their training reflects a reality for hospitals across the U.S. Hospitals invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into cutting-edge technologies that offer a way to make treatments more precise. But implementing a new technology isn’t as simple … Read More
September 10, 2019
(The New York Times) – Now we are aware of the consequences of harassment and unconscious bias, and we are trying to give medical students room to learn and grow — but many medical students and residents continue to experience … Read More
July 29, 2019
(Managed Care Magazine) – Researchers looked at what happened to the telomeres of 250 first-year residents before and after they began their residency, and it’s not good. Telomeres guard against DNA damage and as Dhruv Khullar, MD, points out in … Read More
July 15, 2019
(Scientific American) – It’s four o’clock on a roasting Wednesday last July. I am a resident physician at Yale University, and I am sitting beside my wife, Kristin Budde, who just became an attending physician, also at Yale. We are … Read More
July 11, 2019
(Reuters) – Physicians who trained in U.S. hospitals under recent reforms that capped their work hours appear to provide care that’s similar in cost and quality to doctors who trained before workday reforms took effect, a new study suggests. Reforms … Read More
June 27, 2019
(Vice) – The practice of using non-consenting, unconscious patients as pelvic-exam training tools for medical students has continued to an unknown degree across the country since Silver-Isenstadt, now a pediatrician in Baltimore, first learned about it. It happens not only … Read More
June 17, 2019
JAMA (vol. 321, no. 2, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Rethinking How Antibiotics Are Prescribed: Incorporating the 4 Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Into Clinical Practice” by Pranita D. Tamma, Melissa A. Miller, and Sara E. … Read More
