- Will the isolation children have experienced during the pandemic affect them in the long-term? Matt Richtel explores the potential lasting impact of quarantine on kids ~ Childhood Without Other Children: A Generation Is Raised in Quarantine (The New York Times)
- “Face-to-face human interaction (even by FaceTime) remains essential for sustaining our humanity,” writes Mark B. Leick, MD, reflecting on the fragility of human communication and connection during the pandemic ~ Telephone (New England Journal of Medicine)
- Workplace safety regulators have given employers “broad discretion” to decide whether to report COVID-related worker deaths, according to Aneri Pattani, Robert Lewis, and Christina Jewett. Kaiser Health News found many employers did not notify Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials of employee deaths ~ OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t. (Kaiser Health News)
- Providing compassionate end-of-life care for critically ill patients “has seldom been more challenging,” write Deborah J. Cook, MD, MSc, and colleagues. In a recent analysis, the authors examine clinicians’ perspectives on caring for dying patients and their families during the pandemic ~ Clinician Perspectives on Caring for Dying Patients During the Pandemic (Annals of Internal Medicine)
- With more than 321,000 coronavirus infections tracked across college campuses so far, many institutions have shifted to remote learning and are “hemorrhaging money,” Mark Kreidler writes ~ Fear and Loathing as Colleges Face Another Season of Red Ink (Kaiser Health News)
- Obesity rates hover around 35% in many states and are projected to continue to rise. Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, and William H. Dietz, MD, PhD, discusses the obesity problem in the U.S. and how we can address it ~ Solving Population-wide Obesity — Progress and Future Prospects (New England Journal of Medicine)
- Data show that substance use struggles have gotten worse during the pandemic, especially for more vulnerable populations. Tyler S. Oesterle, MD, MPH, and colleagues, detail the role telehealth can play in improving access to medication-assisted treatment and therapy ~ Substance Use Disorders and Telehealth in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era (Mayo Clinic Proceedings)
Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what’s going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman’s Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.
Source: MedicalNewsToday.com
