Laura Dyrda (Twitter) – Becker’s Hospital Review The executive team at Marshall, Mich.-based Oaklawn Hospital knew they had a problem when the only oncologist in town retired, leaving the community with very limited access to treatment. “We are a small rural hospital that in the past had offered oncology services: chemo, infusion, consultation,” Theresa Dawson, […]
MDedge Neurology By Joann E. Manson, MD, DrPH A new report on the preventability of dementia is both exciting and paradigm-shifting. The new study, published in The Lancet by the Lancet Commission on Dementia, estimates that close to 50% of cases of dementia worldwide can be prevented or delayed by improving 14 modifiable risk factors.
MDedge|Cardiology Jodi Helmer Ashly Doran has worked at seven hospitals in four states since she graduated from nursing school in 2020. No, she isn’t job-hopping. Her travel nursing assignments have ranged from level 1 trauma center emergency rooms in big cities to small medical-surgical units in the suburbs. After each 13-week assignment, Doran packs up
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By Shadman Sinha, MD Featured in Op-Med, a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. I speak to a desperate father on the phone. His daughter’s migraines are making her miss school but the earliest pediatric neurology appointment is six months out. A young teen likely needs growth hormone therapy but the pediatric endocrinologist
MDedge |Internal Medicine Jodi Helmer Only 12% of the nurses providing patient care at hospitals and health clinics today are men. Although the percentage of nurses has increased — men made up just 2.7% of nurses in 1970 — nursing is still considered a “pink collar” profession, a female-dominated field. “We’ve made strides over the
Joseph Lanctot, FNP-C – Conditions I introduce myself to the patients as a nurse practitioner (NP), but they still call me a doctor. Even worse, some of the staff refer to me as “doctor.” I imagine they do so out of respect, but no matter how many times I correct them, the erroneous title lives
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— But don’t forget to speak softly and tread carefully by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA – MedPage Today During a visit to our daughter and her family in Columbus, Ohio, my wife and I went grocery shopping. I noticed a dialysis center nearby and joked, “If we decide to settle in Columbus, I won’t have
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Mariah Taylor (Email) Becker’s Clinical Leadership Nursing is in a “transformational era,” leaders told Becker’s. From developments in AI and virtual nursing, to shifts in workforce needs and demand, they say the changes are a matter of when, not if. Here, four leaders discuss what changes they expect to see in the next five years:
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Joseph Lanctot, FNP- MedPage Today Recently, Bloomberg published an article titled “The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners” by Caleb Melby, Polly Mosendz, and Noah Buhayar, which brings to the public’s attention the dismal state of education for APRNs. I would like to share my own story and that of several other APRNs who attended my
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MDedge Hematology and Oncology Deanna Brockman, MS Cancer is becoming more common in younger generations. Data show that people under 50 are experiencing higher rates of cancer than any generation before them. As a genetic counselor, I hoped these upward trends in early-onset malignancies would slow with a better understanding of risk factors and prevention
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