Medical Blogs

What Use Is the Physical Examination in Current Medical Practice? • December 17, 2025

A very interesting, quite scholarly perspective appeared in the NEJM last month called, “Strategies to Reinvigorate the Bedside Clinical Encounter.” Drawing plenty of attention on social media, it elicited the usual hand-wringing from clinicians who bemoaned the way modern medicine has evolved — away from direct care of patients and toward an ever-expanding reliance on […] Read More

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Developing Resident Educators • August 19, 2022 • Brandon Temte, DO

We currently find ourselves at the start of another academic year. By this time in August, many medical trainees are settling into new roles. Recently graduated medical students are getting used to hearing Dr. before their name. New senior residents who were interns a short time ago now find themselves leaders of their own teams. […] Read More

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Podcast 301: Monkeypox — what to look for, how to treat • August 19, 2022

A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE.

This time, we look to New York for guidance on recognizing and treating monkeypox.

Dr. Eric Meyerowitz of Montefiore and Dr. Stephen Baum of Einstein will lead you through the monkeypox thicket in a 17-minute chat.

Included below is information for patients as well as links to some key articles of interest to clinicians.

LINKS:

For patients: Dr. Barry Zingman’s “Monkeypox — What you need to know”

For clinicians:

• NEJM article on monkeypox in 16 countries
• NEJM Case Records of the Mass. General Hospital on the state’s first case
• Stephen Baum’s summary of a paper in Emerging Infectious Diseases describing viral persistence on fomites

• Podcast 300: NADIM II trial offers “quite exciting” results in lung cancer
• Podcast 299: Lung cancer and atezolizumab — results from the IMpower010 trial
• Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2