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Paul Sax, MD
HIV and ID Observations
An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
all matters medical, and some not so medical
Recent Posts
The House of God Profiled Physician Burnout Long Before We Called It That — Should Aspiring Doctors Still Read It? • July 14, 2019
Many consider the novel The House of God, written by Samuel Shem (pen name for Stephen Bergman), to be a must-read for any physician or soon-to-be physician. A fictionalized account of his internship year, the book details how the accumulated stress, fatigue, and powerlessness of being a first-year doctor inexorably accumulates during that year — […]
2018-2019
Chief Resident Panel:
Justin Davis, MBBS
Cassandra Fritz, MD
Scott Hippe, MD
Ashley McMullen, MD
Ellen Poulose-Redger, MD
Insights on Residency Training
Notes from chief residents in family and internal medicine
Recent Posts
The Nephrology Social Media Collective • April 11, 2019 • Justin Davis, MBBS
Thinking back on it now, I can’t quite recall why I first decided to get a Twitter account. My suspicion is that I wanted to follow the amusing tweets of Jim Sterling who works in the videogame industry and whose work I closely follow. What did happen, of course, is that I eventually realised that, […]
Clinical Conversations
Audio podcasts featuring the week's news,
plus your comments and pertinent interviews
Recent Posts
Podcast 226: What we need to talk about when we talk about health • June 11, 2019
Length: 18 minutes Sandro Galea, dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health, has written a new book. It’s called “Well: What we need to talk about when we talk about health,” and it’s the centerpiece of our discussion. Dr. Galea, who trained as an emergency physician, believes that health is a public good and thus worthy […]
FROM THE ARCHIVES
In Practice: Reflections from NPs and PAs
In Practice, a blog featuring the perspectives of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, was active from 2015 through 2017.
CardioExchange
Posts and discussion from NEJM Group's clinical cardiology community, active from 2009 to 2015.
Gutcheck on Gastroenterology
Gut Check on Gastroenterology, an NEJM Journal Watch blog focusing on issues in clinical gastroenterology, was active from 2008 to 2014.
The views and opinions expressed in these blogs are not necessarily those of NEJM Journal Watch or NEJM Group.
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- Infections in Injection Drug Users in New York State
- From the Blogs: The House of God Profiled Physician Burnout Long Before We Called It That — Should Aspiring Doctors Still Read It?
- Childhood Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination Benefits Adults
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent General Medicine Articles
- Industry Payments Appear to Influence Prescribing Behavior
- Radioactive Iodine Treatment Is Associated Modestly with Solid Organ Cancers
- Associations Between Systolic and Diastolic BP and Cardiovascular Outcomes
- Surgery vs. Physical Therapy for Symptomatic Rotator Cuff Tears
- Natural History of Adrenal Incidentalomas
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Physician’s First Watch Articles
- Overdose Deaths Down in the U.S.
- Your NEJM Group Today: Physician Roles in Tension / Universal Test and Treat / Primary Care & Hem-Onc Opportunities
- WHO Declares Public Health Emergency Over Ebola
- FDA Approves Combo Drug for Complicated UTIs, Intra-Abdominal Infections
- Both Systolic and Diastolic BP Affect CV Outcomes
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Articles
- Feeding Evaluation Decreases Need for Frenotomy in Poor Breast-Feeders
- Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use Is Associated with Later Heroin Initiation in Teens
- Hospitalizations for Asthma in Homeless Pediatric Patients
- Tackling Teen Substance Use: Computer-Based Risk Screening Paired with Brief Provider Counseling
- Pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator in a Community ED: Does It Work?