Unconscious biases can have significantly negative consequences at all levels within health care organizations. Biased communication is a barrier to…
UnitedHealth Ships Flu Kits to Medicare Recipients
Under MedAdvantage plans, the major insurer is sending packages including Tamiflu and coronavirus tests to those considered especially vulnerable to…
Transgender healthcare does not stop at the doorstep of the clinic
Transgender healthcare is political because trans lives are political. Many countries are seeing lawsuits trying to curtail access to care…
The 5Rs of Cultural Humility: A Conceptual Model for Healthcare Leaders
Unconscious biases can have significantly negative consequences at all levels within healthcare organizations. Biased communication is a barrier to patient…
The Silent Epidemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever altered the world that we live and practice in. Each of us has needed to…
DECISION MAKING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM
Venous thromboembolism comprising deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolus is common. Patients with venous thromboembolism may present to a variety…
Why Clinicians Disagree About the Usefulness of the Physical Exam
The physical exam, once assumed an indispensable skill, has had its usefulness questioned and mastery eschewed for the last three…
Gravity and Mastoid effusion
Asymptomatic mastoid effusions have recently been observed in astronauts returning from long-term spaceflight. In hospitalized patients, mastoid effusion increases the…
New imaging method reveals HIV’s sugary shield in unprecedented detail
Scientists have devised a method for mapping in unprecedented detail the thickets of slippery sugar molecules that help shield HIV…
PTSD and alcohol abuse go hand-in-hand, but males and females exhibit symptoms differently
Through intricate experiments designed to account for sex-specific differences, scientists have zeroed-in on certain changes in the brain that may…