General Surgery Perspective

• Rise: Early Mobility in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit   Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Jeffrey Teitler takes you inside Hartford Hospital’s surgical ICU, where early patient mobilization becomes a powerful fight for recovery, resilience, and quality of life.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 10, 2025
• Probiotics: What You Need to Know for Better Patient Care An expert highlights how probiotics can contribute to better patient outcomes, emphasizing their role in treating a variety of conditions beyond the gut.
  Medscape, April 09, 2025
• We Know Nothing About the Clitoris. That Needs to Change   Do we really know what the clitoris looks like? Dr Rachel Rubin poses this question to Dr Shaniel Bowen, who conducted novel 3D modeling of clitoral anatomy in a recent JAMA Surgery investigation.
  Medscape Urology, April 07, 2025
• Alternatives to GLP-1 Medications for Weight Loss   Dr Sarah Barenbaum discusses alternatives to GLP-1 medications for weight loss.
  Medscape, April 04, 2025
• Should Medicine Be Boring? Heroic high-stakes medicine should be left to TV doctors, because the most effective care is performed with a level of precision bordering on the mechanical and the mundane.
  Medscape UK, April 01, 2025
• Gene Therapy: Medical Progress Has a Price, Says Ethicist   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses progress in gene therapy research and the need for medical professionals and regulators to tolerate appropriate risk.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 01, 2025
• The Lingering Fear After Beating Childhood Cancer Dr Maurie Markman examines a recent study on the prevalence of fear of cancer recurrence among childhood cancer survivors.
  Medscape Oncology, April 01, 2025
• Mar 28 2025 This Week in Cardiology   Stopping oral anticoagulation after AF ablation, the core problem with paradoxes like the smoker’s paradox, chronic total occlusion PCI, and an ACC/EHRA preview are discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, March 28, 2025
• Bowel Prep for Colonoscopy: Quality Matters   Dr David Johnson provides highlights from the US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer’s latest consensus recommendations.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 27, 2025
• The Ethical Consequences of the New Administration   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the ethical consequences of the new administration.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 27, 2025
• Make AI Work for Clinicians The Medical Protection Society has outlined the next steps needed to make AI safer for clinicians and patients.
  Medical Protection Society, March 26, 2025
• Shared Decision-Making in Patients With Early Breast Cancer   An oncologist and a two-time early breast cancer survivor explore critical moments in treatment when communication and shared decision-making between patient and physician can fail — or improve.
  Medscape, March 26, 2025
• Critical Data on Breast Cancer Rates and Mortality   Dr Maurie Markman discusses key data from the American Cancer Society’s biennial analysis on breast cancer statistics.
  Medscape Oncology, March 25, 2025
• Easing Patients Beyond Panic in Metastatic Breast Cancer   Dr Erica Mayer of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a patient with metastatic breast cancer discuss how oncologists can ease patients beyond panic after a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer.
  Medscape, March 25, 2025
• S3 Episode 3: The 2025 updates of the American Diabetes Association   Drs Carol H. Wysham and Rozalina G. McCoy discuss the 2025 updates of the American Diabetes Association, including comorbidities, dental care, sexual dysfunction, and CGM use.
  Medscape, March 25, 2025
• Foot Surgery, a Pulmonary Embolism, and a Negligence Claim The Medical Protection Society says lessons can be learned from the case of a patient given an incorrect risk score for pulmonary embolism and what followed.
  Medical Protection Society, March 24, 2025
• C3 Glomerulopathy: Diagnosing a Rare and Variable Disease   Nonspecific signs on a medical exam may point to C3 glomerulopathy, a rare disease with a variable course ranging from quiescence to rapidly progressive kidney failure, reports Dr Fernando Fervenza.
  Medscape, March 24, 2025
• Ethicist Supports Assisted-Suicide Policies—With Safeguards   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations regarding assisted-suicide laws.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 20, 2025
• Diet and Nutrition in Ulcerative Colitis: 5 Things to Know Experts share their clinical insights about the role of diet and nutrition in ulcerative colitis management.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 18, 2025
• GLP-1s Are Crazy Effective — Just Not Cost-Effective   We know they are expensive, but isn’t the cost recouped by the healthcare savings? Dr F. Perry Wilson explains.
  Medscape, March 17, 2025