- Why do doctors today continue to provide poor pain management to black and Hispanic patients? Linda Villarosa explores the roots of this racial disparity ~ How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in Medicine Today (The New York Times)
- Were you bullied during residency? A recent study from Manasa S. Ayyala, MD, Rebeca Rios, PhD, and Scott M. Wright, MD, analyzes the extent of bullying experienced by internal medicine residents ~ Perceived Bullying Among Internal Medicine Residents (JAMA)
- Andrew Anglemyer, PhD, and Annette Beautrais, PhD, describe how two countries "are worlds apart" in their reactions to gun violence and ownership ~ Political Response to Firearm Violence Resulting in Mass Casualties in New Zealand and the United States: Worlds Apart (Annals of Internal Medicine)
- The incredibly high hospital costs in the U.S. are making trips abroad for both surgeons and patients financially worthwhile, Phil Galewitz writes ~ To Save Money, American Patients And Surgeons Meet In Cancun (Kaiser Health News/The New York Times)
- Rebekah Diamond, MD, explores why keeping newborn infants with their mothers during hospitalization "should absolutely become the standard of care" ~ A Delicate Bond (JAMA)
- Luisa Torres details how researchers are repurposing older drugs to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria ~ To Find The Next Antibiotic, Scientists Give Old Drugs A New Purpose (NPR)
- "One mother, knowing her son is dying, asks a visiting team of caregivers to sit with him at the end," writes Christopher Hartnick, MD, of his experience in a pediatric ICU in San Salvador ~ Bearing Witness (New England Journal of Medicine)
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.