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We all have the same number of hours in the day. Things need to get done, and when you’re a physician, sometimes the day is gone before you feel like you even got started. Here are some tips and tricks to help streamline your schedule and improve your time management. You, your staff, and your family will appreciate the productivity and efficiency gains these tips could offer.

In this symposium preceding the ASH Annual Meeting on 12/4/20, the overall objective is to inform participants about emerging diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of bleeding and thrombotic disorders. The speakers will illustrate how costly and unnecessary biochemical, phenotypic, and genetic testing can be avoided in the participants’ practices while enhancing highest quality medical care.

In this article/podcast from KevinMD.com, the author fears that, after decades of progress in detecting, treating, and preventing many types of cancers, this nation could face a “cancer pandemic” in the next ten years as a result of this delay in routine screenings. These missed cancer screenings will likely result in delayed cancer diagnoses, recurrence of disease, and increases in cancer deaths.

In a nutshell, imposter syndrome is the overwhelming belief that you’re a fraud, despite objective evidence to the contrary, and it’s rare for any physician to be completely immune. This pattern of thinking can cause pervasive anxiety, frequently contributing to physician burnout. Here are three tips to help overcome these feelings and take positive steps toward building back your self-worth.

In this article from the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the authors suggest the need for caution and well-conducted trials to systematically address the question of total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) in rectal cancer, which can lead to overtreatment and unnecessary toxicity without a proven benefit. Despite some of its theoretical advantages, declaring TNT a new standard of care may be premature.

In this podcast/article from KevinMD.com, the author questions how FIGS – a design-driven medical apparel company – let a flagrantly offensive advertisement against DOs get published, in addition to other criticism: “We should also ponder how – despite 150 years of DO education within the US – we’ve failed to correct the systemic discrimination against osteopathic students and physicians.”