CDI: A Shifting Paradigm?
The incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has tripled over the past decade despite...
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Emergency Medicine
Filling Prescriptions After Opioid-Related Hospitalizations
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 4.3 million...
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Continuing Life Sustaining Therapy in the Face of Futility
One of the most difficult challenges physicians encounter is assisting terminally ill patients who...
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Making Patient Education a Two-Way Street
With the increased focus on patient engagement to improve outcomes, we as clinicians must think...
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2017 HIV/AIDS Statistics – Facts on Rates, Cost & More
In the 1980s, at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, more than 59,000 Americans lost their lives...
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Conference Highlights: ACEP17
Discharging PE Patients from the ED Evidence indicates that EDs are overcrowded, that length of...
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#PWChat – Why Doctors Are Losing the Public’s Trust
Join us Wednesday, December 13 at 3:00pm ET for PART II of our live, interactive tweetchat with...
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#PWChat Recap – Pseudoscience in Medicine: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References, Part II
Dr. Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP joined Physician’s Weekly to co-host Part II in our #PWChat series, on...
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Hospitals, Third Parties, and Physicians: Opposing Roles in Containing Healthcare Costs
Patients do not have carte blanche when it comes to decisions about their medical care. The type...
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3D Printing Shows Talocalcaneal Joint Very Well!
A surgical resident used the above 3D-printed calcaneal fracture to gain more insight in the...
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#PWChat – Ketamine for Depression: Exciting but Controversial
Join us Thursday, November 16 at 9:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Steven P....
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Conference Highlights: IDWeek 2017
Comorbidities Screening in HIV Patients For a study, researchers analyzed medical records of HIV...
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#PWChat Recap – Exercise as Medicine: Helping Patients Cut Through all the Noise
Physician’s Weekly, along with Greg Wells, PhD, co-hosted the first part of a #PWChat on how to...
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Introducing a New Blog on 3D Printing in Medicine
I’m a surgical resident in training and PhD-candidate in the Elisabeth-Tweesteden hospital,...
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Protein That Could Improve Symptoms and Reduce Mortality in Flu
Flu season is on its way, and a new report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology has identified an...
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#PWChat – Pseudoscience in Medicine PART 2: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References
Join us Wednesday, October 25 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis,...
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#PWChat Recap – Pseudoscience in Medicine: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References
Dr. Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP joined Physician’s Weekly to co-host another installment in our...
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#PWChat – Exercise as Medicine: Helping Patients Cut Through all the Noise
Join us Wednesday, October 4 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Greg Wells, PhD,...
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Outdoor Air Pollution May Increase the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease
Outdoor air pollution has long been linked to major health conditions such as heart disease,...
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#PWChat – Pseudoscience in Medicine: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References
Join us Tuesday, September 26 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis,...
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