Doctors and the D Word: Talking About Death Is an Essential Skill — and One Often Lacking
The reasons for physicians’ discomfort with conversations about dying are as much cultural, social, and systemic as they are personal.
The reasons for physicians’ discomfort with conversations about dying are as much cultural, social, and systemic as they are personal.
The potential consequences of providing cosmetic treatment to a patient with BDD can extend beyond ethical concerns.
Abilify MyCite adds a digital sensor to the medication aripiprazole. The sensor, an ingestible event marker, is activated by contact with stomach acids and transmits a signal to a skin patch the patient wears, which then transmits to an app.
While researchers continue learning about specific interactions between poor sleep and psychotic symptoms, clinicians should be incorporating more comprehensive questions about sleep into their assessment of patients.
Parents using intervention strategies in addition to the interventionist working directly with the child can be very beneficial, as an interventionist only gets to see a child for a few hours a week.
One of the requirements for diagnosing OCD is that the individuals don’t want to engage in their behaviors. However, youth with autism who have verbal skills often say that they feel content with their repetitive behaviors and have no interest in stopping them.
No single solution to address sexual harassment in medicine exists, but physicians of all genders must come together to make progress.
One of the biggest challenges faced by individuals with ASD is finding ways to be happy and successful in a neurotypical world.
The prevalence of bipolar postpartum depression is greater than previously understood and requires distinct treatment.
As pharmacologic options have largely remained the same during the last decade, there exists a need to consider adjunctive therapies for bipolar disorder treatment.