By Scott Butler, MD
Peer Reviewed
A presidential goodbye. A contentious press conference. A salacious dossier from a British spy. It’s been quite a week.
As Republican legislators transition from symbolically voting to …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Myths and Realities: Is My Cirrhotic Patient Auto-anticoagulated?
January 12, 2017
By B. Corbett Walsh, MD
Peer Reviewed
Case: A 65 year-old man with cirrhosis is admitted to the ICU for severe pneumonia. His hepatic dysfunction is chronically severe, as indicated by …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
January 9, 2017
By: Nancyanne Schmidt, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week, the intelligence report commissioned by President Obama on suspected hacking during the recent presidential election revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
January 4, 2017
By Derek Moriyama, MD
Peer Reviewed
It is official. The members of the electoral college have cast their votes and Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States. As …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
December 19, 2016
By B. Corbett Walsh, MD
Peer Reviewed
As many of us reflect on the festivities that occurred during the Department of Medicine Holiday Party this past weekend, all can agree that winter is not only coming, but that it has arrived. Earlier this …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
December 13, 2016
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 …
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 …