By Monica Gupta, MD and Alice Tang, MD
Peer reviewed
Physician burnout is a phenomenon that is becoming recognized as widespread in both trainees and in practicing doctors. Long taxing hours, insurmountable educational debt, the burden …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
From the Archives: Corticosteroids and Prophylaxis. What complications should you try to prevent in patients on chronic corticosteroids?
December 7, 2017
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated October 30, 2013
By Robert Joseph Fakheri, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A 55 year-old male is recently diagnosed with systemic sarcoidosis. The patient is started on prednisone …
Cancer Survivors – Who are they, what are their needs, and how can medical providers meet these needs?
December 6, 2017
By Maria Garcia-Jimenez, MD/MHS, Abinav Baweja, MD, and Nicole LaNatra, MD
Peer Reviewed
Clinical vignette
A 65-year old woman with history of invasive breast cancer presents to her primary care provider for …
Primecuts – This Week in the Journals
December 4, 2017
By Margot Hedlin, MD
Peer Reviewed
It’s a brave new world – on Saturday the Senate approved a much-debated tax bill intended to cut $1.4 trillion from taxes, in …
Core IM Podcast: Mind the Gap Part 2 on Paracentesis
November 29, 2017
Should a cirrhotic’s INR and platelets deter you from doing a paracentesis? Do you need to transfuse prior to a paracentesis? Do generalist have worse procedure complications than specialists? Go …
Mystery Quiz-The Answer
November 21, 2017Before you read the answer, please review the original Mystery Quiz posted 11/9/17
Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The answer to the Mystery Quiz is lung carcinoma. The location of the lesion is the superior segment of the right lower lobe which is dependent when the patient is supine. This location often …
PrimeCuts – This Week in the Journals
November 20, 2017
By Alexander Jordan, MD
Peer Reviewed
Love has won another hard-fought victory! In Australia, nearly 13 million people took part in a national survey held on marriage equality, with …
Tales of the Bellevue Hospital Internal Medicine House Staff from the ‘60s to Now
November 17, 2017
In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Clinical Correlations we are presenting a wonderful 4 part series of life as a house officer at Bellevue Hospital in the 60’s, …