By Shriram Alapaty, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week, America’s president-elect Donald Trump continued to defy expectations by selecting Mr. Scott Pruitt, a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to head the Environmental Protection …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
December 8, 2016
By Robert Freilich, MD
Peer Reviewed
Levels of smoking have dropped to record lows in the United states. Per a NY Times article1, the CDC reports that smoking levels are down in Americans …
Balancing patient information with our professional and relational duties to patients and families without appealing to paternalism.
December 2, 2016
A commentary by Antonella Surbone, MD PhD FACP, Ethics Editor on yesterday’s article “Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Information?”
The insighftul and challenging piece Is there such a thing as …
Is there such a thing as too much information?
December 1, 2016
By Mariya Rozenblit, MD
Peer Reviewed
On my first day of internship I was faced with the seemingly simple task of consenting a patient for a blood transfusion. I went over the informed consent form …
Mystery Quiz-The Answer
November 28, 2016Before you read the answer, please review the original Mystery Quiz posted 11/18/16.
Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The answer to the mystery quiz is aspiration pneumonia. The CXR (Image 1) shows a total opacification of the right hemithorax. Importantly, the tracheal air column is deviated to the side of the opacification. …
Glucagon People/Insulin People
November 23, 2016
By Michael Tanner, MD
Glucagon: a 29-amino-acid polypeptide secreted by the alpha cells of the pancreas in response to hypoglycemia or starvation.
Insulin: a 51-amino-acid polypeptide secreted by the beta cells of the pancreas in …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
November 21, 2016
By Maria Sunseri, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week we saw America’s favorite musical deliver an unscripted yet heartfelt message at the end of the performance to audience member Vice President-Elect Mike Pence. And while President-Elect …
Mystery Quiz
November 18, 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 …