By Logan Groneck
Peer Reviewed
Your next patient is very familiar. The management of her chronic diseases–heart failure (HF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD)—has been optimized. Like the 6.2 million other Americans with HF1 and the …
By Logan Groneck
Peer Reviewed
Your next patient is very familiar. The management of her chronic diseases–heart failure (HF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD)—has been optimized. Like the 6.2 million other Americans with HF1 and the …
By Joachner Philippe
Peer Reviewed
Ms. G was a 44-year-old African American woman with a history of sarcoidosis presenting to her outpatient pulmonologist/primary care physician for follow-up. Insurance complications had forced her to switch to a …
By Emily Mills
Peer Reviewed
While on my medical school Pediatrics rotation I learned of an important developmental milestone—the “why” phase. During this time, the inquisitive three-year-old bombards their parents with an infinite array of questions, …
By Hayley Galitzer, MD
In less than a year, the medical community has gone from encountering a novel virus to developing 73 potential vaccines [1] one of which is now FDA …
By Elyse Berlinberg
Peer Reviewed
It is a quiet afternoon at the Primary Care Clinic, so you decide to open MyChart to catch up on your messages. You come across a message from a patient who …
By Gabriel Ben-Dor, MD
Peer Reviewed
“None of the meds really helped but after only three acupuncture sessions my hip pain is gone, but I still have the shoulder and knee pain, why is that doc?” asked …
By David Collins
Peer Reviewed
Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) is a rapidly growing risk to public health in the US, with nearly 17,000 new diagnoses and 16,000 EA deaths in 2017.1 Although treatment options have improved for …
By Peter Sheng, MD, MPH
Peer Reviewed
Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) has become the standard of care for patients after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) [1]. It is important, however, to consider the risk of gastrointestinal (GI) …