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The truth about GLP-1 medications for weight loss: What every patient should know

Meds

May 9, 2025

For years, weight loss has been sold as a simple math problem: eat less, move more, and the pounds will melt away. But if that were true, we wouldn’t have an obesity epidemic affecting over 40 percent of adults in the U.S.

Now, a new class of medications—GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound)—are changing the game. People who have struggled with their weight for …

A faster path to becoming a doctor is possible—here’s how

Ankit Jain

Education

May 9, 2025

Medical education is a long and arduous route and can take from twelve to sixteen years of education which includes three to four years of undergraduate degree, one to two gap years before medical school, four years of medical school and three to seven years of residency training.

To address this shortage, we have come up with solutions for creating three-year medical schools, starting tracks for physician assistants/associates and nurse practitioners. …

Misconceptions about food allergy safety in the skies [PODCAST]

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Podcast

May 8, 2025

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Physical therapist and food allergy advocate Lianne Mandelbaum discusses her article, “Flying with food allergies: Combating misconceptions and advocating for safety.” Sharing harrowing personal experiences with dismissive airline staff that ignited her …

From rejection to resilience: my journey through emergency medicine residency

Dr. Syed Hasan

Physician

May 8, 2025

When I first entered Aga Khan University Hospital as an emergency medicine (EM) resident, it felt like stepping into a whirlwind. The controlled chaos of the emergency department, the endless maze of technology, the pressure to make decisions in seconds—it all felt like too much. To make things harder, this opportunity came only after facing rejection last year—a moment that could have easily shaken my confidence. Some early on even …

Conflicts of interest are eroding trust in U.S. health agencies

Martha Rosenberg

Policy

May 8, 2025

Why has faith in government health agencies never been lower? Because conflicts of interest (COIs) have never been higher.

At the FDA, concerns about drugmakers “buying” drug approvals go back to passage of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) in 1992. Since then, the many doctors with research and speaker grants, drug stocks, and past employment with drugmakers heighten concerns. Worse, many major drug trials that claim to show …

Why the words doctors use matter more than they think

Erin Paterson

Conditions

May 8, 2025

I recently attended a medical conference for the Huntington’s disease (HD) community. Hundreds of people were gathered to collaborate, share knowledge, and learn how to better address the needs of their patients. During the first session, I found it challenging to listen to the presentation and the conversations taking place around me. The detached manner in which people were speaking was troubling to me, so I stepped out for a …

What my first Match Day as a program director taught me about hope

Ryan McCarthy, MD

Physician

May 8, 2025

Today was my first Match Day as a program director and, while most of my emotions are unprocessed, I already have many thoughts.

I can’t forget the concurrent drop in my stomach, pause in my cardiac systole, and the involuntary intake of breath which occurred when the email arrived—2 minutes early!—from the NRMP. I stacked an extra gasp even before I exhaled the first while I fumbled to open the email. …

Navigating the path from physician burnout to career balance [PODCAST]

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Podcast

May 7, 2025

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Internal medicine physician Kara Pepper discusses her article, “From burnout to balance: 5 stages of career transformation.” Drawing from her own journey away from burnout and her experience coaching hundreds of physicians, …

Stop absorbing the chaos: How doctors can reclaim their well-being

Jessie Mahoney, MD

Physician

May 7, 2025

Are you absorbing the system’s dysfunction?

Do you find yourself absorbing the collective frustration of health care dysfunction? Taking on the role of savior? Overextending to compensate for broken processes? Feeling personally responsible for guiding patients, family, or friends through the labyrinth of health care?

You’re not alone.

The power of choice in medicine

It’s rare that a practicing physician …

Bridging the digital divide: Addressing health inequities through home-based AI solutions

Dr. Sreeram Mullankandy

Tech

May 7, 2025

As a physician who transitioned into health technology leadership, my journey over the past few years has revealed a fundamental truth: The future of health care delivery isn’t confined to hospitals or clinics—it’s in patients’ homes as well. I am not just talking about patients who have to be discharged early from our hospitals, but also about patients who don’t have easy access to health care and patients who have …

Survival strategies for marginalized physicians [PODCAST]

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Podcast

May 6, 2025

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Family physician Atharva Joshi discusses his article, “How the system hunts physicians who refuse to kneel.” He argues that the health care system often targets minority physicians not through overt actions but …

How AI helped me reclaim my creative mind with ADHD

Risa Schulman, MD

Conditions

May 6, 2025

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand and tame my own mind.

I meditate—have for years. I journal. I go to therapy. I’ve devoted years of my life to endurance sports to “get out of my head,” I even lived at a yoga ashram. I’ve done the work, or at least, a lot of it. I don’t think I’m unfamiliar with introspection or emotional hygiene.

Medical students in Korea face expulsion for speaking out

Anonymous

Education

May 6, 2025

For over a year, we, Korea’s medical students, have lived under the weight of institutional threats

What began as a disagreement over health policy escalated into an all-out campaign to silence us. We were told that if we resisted, we would be punished. At first, the punishment was supposed to be academic probation. But on May 2, 2025, something changed.

Despite university rules that previously allowed for probation or suspension, the government …

America, our health care workforce training isn’t evolving alongside our needs

William Wertheim, MD, MBA

Education

May 6, 2025

It was recently match day in the medical school world. Students who have given their lives to their studies to become doctors learned where they’d spend the next three to seven years in their chosen specialty completing their residency. This is one of the highlights each year as newly minted dermatologists, surgeons, psychiatrists, and internal medicine doctors, among many others, begin their next chapters and disperse across the country. It’s …

Why no medical malpractice firm responded to my scientific protocol

Howard Smith, MD

Physician

May 6, 2025

Doctors are plagued by medical malpractice lawsuits. Every year, there are 85,000 lawsuits filed, of which 66.6 percent are frivolous. Each doctor has an 8.5 percent chance per year of being sued.

In the course of my efforts to make a difference, I personally contact 50 of the nation’s most prestigious medical malpractice law firms, both plaintiff and defense firms. I make it known that I developed a risk management process …

Avoiding leadership pitfalls: strategies for success in health care [PODCAST]

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Podcast

May 5, 2025

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Management consultant and author Roger A. Gerard discusses his article, “10 ways health care leaders sabotage their own success—and how to stop.” He identifies common, often unintentional, ways health care leaders undermine …

Doctors speak out: Why we’re saying no to burnout

Aisha Quarles, MD

Physician

May 5, 2025

For years, physicians have given their time and mental space freely. But medicine has changed dramatically. It’s not the same field it was 40 years ago. Even 20 years ago.

Today, the pressures are higher than ever. Corporations now own many hospitals and outpatient practices. Insurance companies keep slashing reimbursements while demanding more documentation, more prior authorizations, and denying care more frequently. The administrative burden has exploded.

Meanwhile, inflation soars. Student loan …

When doctors die in silence: Confronting the epidemic of violence against physicians

Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD

Physician

May 5, 2025

When the CEO of United Health Care was assassinated in broad daylight on the streets of New York City, the media lit up. News outlets scrambled for interviews. Security protocols were analyzed. His death was treated with the gravity such a high-profile loss warrants.

But I wonder: Where is that outrage when physicians die?

Every year in America, doctors are killed — not by administrative burnout, malpractice lawsuits, or government prosecutions, but …

When asking one more question can change everything

Zain Abidin

Conditions

May 5, 2025

She looked relatively healthy. Middle-aged, calm, composed. She had tried everything—until she hadn’t. That’s how she found herself on the OR schedule for a hysterectomy.

Years of irregular, heavy bleeding had led her here. She didn’t want surgery, but she was tired. Tired of bleeding, tired of not being heard, tired of grasping for answers. This was the final option, or so it seemed.

But then, just before the surgery, a resident …

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