Observations and Commentary on Medicine and Current Events
Jack West, MD, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Nathan Pennell, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic, debate the results of the ADAURA trial presented as a plenary session at the 2020 ASCO virtual meeting, especially the extrapolation from DFS to OS, balance of chemotherapy administration in the treatment arms, lumping of varying disease stages in … Read more
Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS, director of the leukemia program, Cleveland Clinic, and esteemed author, essayist, and op-ed writer, discusses his latest work “When Blood Breaks Down” and the human interactions with leukemia patients that set the backdrop for discussions in the book.
Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD, scholar in residence, school of medicine, Stanford University, discusses “stereotype threat” and the challenges that women face when training to become surgeons, methods of researching gender inequity and bias in medicine, and bias against foreign medical graduates.
I check in with Graham Collins (University of Oxford), David Steensma (Dana Farber Cancer Institute), and Vincent Rajkumar (Mayo Clinic) to discuss the most prevalent and noteworthy clinical research from the virtual EHA meeting discussing recent advances in Hodgkin lymphoma, MDS and AML, multiple myeloma, and DLBCL. You were unable to travel there, but you can listen to the recent … Read more
Cristiane Bergerot (@crisbergerot), PhD, health psychologist, who was at the City of Hope National Medical Center, when we taped this episode discusses when patients should be involved with a psycho-oncologist, whether the psychological state of a patient has an impact on treatment outcomes, pre-diagnosis factors that may put a patient at higher risk of depression, … Read more
Anish Koka, MD, cardiologist in Philadelphia, and Saurabh Jha, MD, radiologist in Philadelphia, discuss the initial reaction by MedTwitter to the pandemic outbreak, when the community realized it was a serious situation at hand, and the dangers of “politicizing” all aspects of the discussion.
This is a MUST LISTEN. I took a back seat as the host and gave the microphone to Dr. Saurabh Jha, one of our favorite guests and who is a sophisticated radiologist in Pennsylvania. He was the guest host for this episode that featured Adam Cifu, MD, internist in Chicago, and Michel Accad, MD, cardiologist … Read more
Colleen Farrell, MD, internal medicine resident in NYC, shares the stresses experienced by medical residents treating COVID-19, the physical impact of being on the front lines with extended hours, and a harrowing personal story of the emotional toll of being engrossed in the hospital environment during these times.