4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (292+ words) When a patient with decision-making capacity declines immediate excision of a lesion on her foot despite strong suspicion of acral melanoma, the appropriate response is to balance the patient’s autonomy with the clinician’s duty to act on the suspected malignancy,…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (600+ words) The medication didn’t work.” Nearly every clinician who manages chronic disease has heard some version of this statement. Sometimes treatment truly fails. Sometimes disease progresses despite appropriate therapy. But often the issue is more subtle: a gap between what the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (177+ words) According to the research team, survivors of critical illness often develop post‑intensive care syndrome (PICS), presenting with PTSD, anxiety, and depression that leads to diminished HRQoL. “At six months, PTSD symptom severity did not differ between early ICU-VR and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (312+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI)–assisted diabetic retinopathy screening (DRS) in primary care demonstrated strong ability to rule out disease but produced substantial false positives, according to findings from a study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. According to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1036+ words) Can Enterprise AI Finally Reduce Payer Friction for Physicians? Physician’s Weekly spoke with Sanjay Subramanian, senior vice president and Healthcare Payer Business Unit Head at Cognizant, about how leading payers are transitioning to enterprise-wide AI, the measurable impact on denials…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (92+ words) Christina A. Sheil, MD Research evaluating online health information shows significant variability in accuracy, completeness and reliability, reinforcing the need for critical appraisal of digital resources.2 In this environment, the clinician’s role is not to dismiss online information but to guide…...