Perspectives
Perspectives
Best Practice Implementation and Clinical Inertia
Opinion
A plane crash interrupts a doctor’s vacation
‘My oldest brother-in-law jumped into his ski boat and we sped out to the scene.’
Opinion
The body of evidence for Paxlovid therapy
For older patients, we should be thinking of why we should be using Paxlovid rather than the reason not to treat.
Opinion
I’m a physician battling long COVID. I can assure you it’s real
“I’ve also seen, firsthand, the frustration of navigating diagnosis and treatment. It’s given me a taste of what millions of other patients are...
Opinion
Ivermectin for COVID-19: Final nail in the coffin
Is this nice U.S. randomized trial enough to convince people that results from a petri dish don’t always transfer to humans, regardless of the...
Opinion
Why the 5-day isolation period for COVID makes no sense
More than half of those positive on day 7 tested positive on day 8, and more than half of those tested positive again on day 9.
Opinion
The marked contrast in pandemic outcomes between Japan and the United States
Over time Japan has the least cumulative deaths per capita of any major country in the world.
Opinion
Why people lie about COVID
Of those surveyed, 41.6% admitted that they lied about COVID or didn’t adhere to COVID guidelines – a conservative estimate, if you ask me.
Opinion
When do we stop using BMI to diagnose obesity?
Before emotions hijack the conversation, let’s discuss BMI’s past, present, and future.