Commentary
Managing Your Practice
Pay an annual visit to your office
When did you last take a good look at your waiting room?
Opinion
A 50-year-old woman with no significant history presented with erythematous, annular plaques, and papules on the dorsal hands and arms
A 50-year-old has had erythematous, annular plaques, and papules on her hands and arms for years.
Commentary
What is the optimal pad position in transcutaneous pacing?
Transvenous pacing is typically the most effective therapy for unstable bradycardia but it is invasive, takes some time to perform.
Commentary
A remote mountain bike crash forces a doctor to take knife in hand
An emergency medicine doctor stops mountain biking to help a man lying on a trail, not moving but occasionally breathing.
Commentary
Age competency exams for physicians – yes or no?
Almost one-third of licensed doctors in the United States were 60 years of age or older, according to a survey conducted in 2020.
Commentary
Atrial fibrillation: Sex differences and modifiable risk factors
Experts examine to what extent greater height explains the differences in AF risk between men and women.
Commentary
Five thoughts on the Damar Hamlin collapse
The cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills footballer Damar Hamlin has led to speculation about commotio cordis and more, but this electrophysiologist...
The Optimized Doctor
Time for a rest
I asked some docs when they thought this feeling of exhaustion first began. We agreed that the pandemic, doubledemic, tripledemic, backlog have...
Commentary
A doctor saves a drowning family in a dangerous river
The doctor performed CPR on a boy he found floating, face down, and motionless.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
How to have a safer and more joyful holiday season
Unfortunately, the risks associated with gathering are not over.
Commentary
Debating the clinical trial upending colonoscopy practices
“But I feel like this study reinforces my feeling that we ought to be presenting these [options], and not saying one is superior or inferior to...