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June 2, 2023

Addressing Social Needs in Primary Care Not Federally Funded Addressing Social Needs in Primary Care Not Federally Funded

The costs of providing evidence-based interventions in primary care to address social needs far exceed current federal funding streams, say the authors of a new analysis. […]
June 2, 2023

MDs With Chronic Illness Live in a Different Medical World MDs With Chronic Illness Live in a Different Medical World

Linda Bluestein remembers all the doctors who missed, ignored, or incompletely diagnosed her chronic illness. There was the orthopedic surgeon who noted her hyperextended elbows but […]
June 2, 2023

Continuous Glucose Monitors Come to Hospitals Continuous Glucose Monitors Come to Hospitals

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) could enhance care of hospitalized people with diabetes, supplementing or possibly even replacing the use of finger sticks to draw blood to […]
June 1, 2023

Ancient Plague, Cyclical Pandemics…History Lesson? Ancient Plague, Cyclical Pandemics…History Lesson?

Even the plague wanted to visit Stonehenge We’re about to blow your mind: The history you learned in school was often inaccurate. Shocking, we know, so […]
May 31, 2023

Exercise and Empathy Can Aid Patients With Chronic Back Pain Exercise and Empathy Can Aid Patients With Chronic Back Pain

Treatment of chronic back pain remains a challenge for primary care physicians, and a new Cochrane Review confirms previous studies suggesting that analgesics and antidepressants fall […]
May 31, 2023

Internists Unhappy With Pay: Medscape Compensation Report Internists Unhappy With Pay: Medscape Compensation Report

Fewer than half of internists consider themselves “fairly paid,” according to the Medscape Internist Compensation Report 2023, which puts internal medicine physicians in the bottom three […]
May 30, 2023

Internists: Increased earnings can’t stop rising discontent Internists: Increased earnings can’t stop rising discontent

Internists experienced many of the usual ups and downs regarding nonclinical matters in 2022: Compensation was up, but satisfaction with compensation was down; the percentage of […]
May 30, 2023

People Still Want Their Medical Intelligence in Human Form People Still Want Their Medical Intelligence in Human Form

Doctors or AI? Lukewarm vote of confidence goes to… Well, we’ve got some good news for the physicians out there, and we’ve got some bad news. […]
May 24, 2023

The Weird World of Hydrogels: How They’ll Change Healthcare The Weird World of Hydrogels: How They’ll Change Healthcare

New hydrogels can flow easily through a needle yet maintain their gel form, releasing medicine slowly inside the body. Imagine a day when a simple injection […]
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