By Kate Otto Chebly
Peer Reviewed
Mr. Williams came to us as so many patients do.
“I just fell down,†he repeated, grumpily, his snaggletooth resting on his cracked, pursed lips.
Our team of …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Core IM Podcast: Mind the Gap on Albumin in SBP
January 3, 2018
Let’s go deeper as to why we do what we do: albumin in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP)! Written by Dr. Steve Liu || Hosted by Dr. Steve Liu and …
How Can You Best Address Polypharmacy in the Elderly?
December 21, 2017
By Michael Nguyen
Peer Reviewed
Polypharmacy has been defined as the use of multiple unnecessary medications, the use of more medications than is clinically warranted or indicated, or the …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
December 18, 2017
By: Amanda Dowden, MD
This week, Alabama elected its first Democratic senate leader in 25 years, as democrat Doug Jones beat Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate Race. In local NYC news, in the wake of the opioid epidemic the Bronx …
Age Is Just a Number: Combating Muscle Loss in The Elderly
December 14, 2017
By Carl Preiksaitis
Peer Reviewed
The term “sarcopenia†was introduced in 1989 to characterize the loss of muscle mass that occurs as a consequence of advancing age.1 Use of …
Core IM Podcast: 5 Pearls on Hepatic Encephalopathy
December 13, 2017
By Dr. John Hwang MD, Marty Fried MD and Shreya P. Trivedi MD; Illustration by Mike Natter MD.  Quiz yourself on the following 5 Pearls we’ll be covering on …
PrimeCuts – This Week in the Journals
December 11, 2017
By Gregory Rubinfeld, MD
Peer Reviewed
Manhattan enjoyed its first snow of the season and in its wake New Yorkers trudge carefully through the slick and slush covered streets[1]. On a somber …
Burnout- The Hot Topic in Medicine
December 8, 2017
By Monica Gupta, MD and Alice Tang, MD
Peer reviewed
Physician burnout is a phenomenon that is becoming recognized as widespread in both trainees and in practicing doctors. Long taxing hours, insurmountable educational debt, the …