By Amar Parikh, MD
Peer Reviewed
Welcome to Gamechangers, a series that takes a critical look at the latest in medical literature to answer one important question: would the results of this article change …
Author: Neil.Shapiro@nyulangone.org
Clinical Correlations
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
November 7, 2016
By Nishan Bingham, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week, Ken Burns announced that he will have to remake his documentary series, Baseball, after the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time …
Mental Pathologies at the Root of Modern Medical Training: Lessons from the Life of Professor William Stewart Halsted
November 3, 2016
By Jafar Hamid Al-Mondhiry, MD, MA
Peer Reviewed
A critical care attending once told me that “learning scars” are some of our greatest teachers. And he was right. Many times, a sense of …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
November 1, 2016
By: Aditya Sreenivasan, MD
For the Halloween edition of Primecuts, we resisted the temptation to follow the standard media trend and go exclusively with “spooky” or alarming articles. Though the subject …
Mystery Quiz
October 28, 2016Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The patient is an 86 year old man who presented with weakness, lethargy and falls. His history was noteworthy for an episode of empyema nine years earlier that was managed with tube thoracostomy followed by decortication. Seven years prior to this admission, upper endoscopy revealed …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
October 25, 2016
By Danielle Brewington MD, MS
Peer Reviewed
As October draws to a close, the presidential debates have wrapped up and most people are bracing until the end of the political season. Many of …
The Rising Tide of Food Allergy
October 20, 2016
By Kristina Cieslak, MD
Peer Reviewed
Food allergies affect approximately 8% of children and 5% of adults, with a steadily increasing prevalence [1]. Risk factors for the development of food allergy …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
October 17, 2016
By Jenna Conway, MD
Peer Reviewed
With less than a month to Election Day, we learned this week what Donald Trump deems appropriate “locker room talk” about women, while several women came forward …