Perspectives
Opinion
Guidance on infection prevention for health care personnel
Many clinicians have asked whether a physician should use a mask while seeing patients without COVID-19 in the office.
From the Society
Farewell to Larry Wellikson, MD, MHM
SHM cofounders praise the Society's outgoing CEO.
Perspectives
The plague of racism in our society
COVID-19 and racial injustice are both plagues upon our medical house.
Perspectives
‘I can’t breathe’: Health inequity and state-sanctioned violence
Whether we know it or not, we all carry some form of implicit bias.
Opinion
Preventing arrhythmias and QTc prolongation in COVID-19 patients on psychotropics
Psychotropics associated with QTc interval prolongation should be discontinued (or substituted with a low-risk agent) if a patient presents with...
Opinion
Perfect storm of SARS-CoV-2 during flu season
Flu vaccination is the one thing that can be done to mitigate the situation.
Perspectives
Perspectives of a black physician in the time of two pandemics
Black physicians have known that racism has been a pandemic all along, says hospitalist Dr. Kimberly Manning.
Opinion
Kids with food allergies the newest victims of COVID-19?
Opinion
Human sitters in the COVID era
There are really no data upon which to base any sound ethics judgment about what should be tried, said Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie.
Opinion
COVID-19: Use these strategies to help parents with and without special needs children
Make everyone in the family a contributor and foster a sense of gratitude, said Dr. Migdalia Miranda Sotir.