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.
All articles by Tara Haelle, MS
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Ethical Questions and Surgical Contraindications
The potential consequences of providing cosmetic treatment to a patient with BDD can extend beyond ethical concerns.
FDA Approval of Medication With a Digital Monitoring System: Major Breakthrough or “Brave New World”?
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.
Holistic Sleep Experiences Crucial to Understanding Psychosis
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.
How Parents Can Enhance Autism Treatment: Use of Intervention Strategies at Home
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.
Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder and OCD: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment
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.
Under the Microscope: Medicine’s #MeToo Moment
No single solution to address sexual harassment in medicine exists, but physicians of all genders must come together to make progress.
The Consequences of Compensation in Autism
One of the biggest challenges faced by individuals with ASD is finding ways to be happy and successful in a neurotypical world.
Bipolar Postpartum Depression Frequently Missed, Requires Screening
The prevalence of bipolar postpartum depression is greater than previously understood and requires distinct treatment.
Adjunctive Therapies for Bipolar Disorder Show Promise, Need More Evidence
As pharmacologic options have largely remained the same during the last decade, there exists a need to consider adjunctive therapies for bipolar disorder treatment.
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