Opinion
Triage, L&D, postpartum care during the COVID-19 pandemic
May 6, 2020
N95 masks and eye protection should be provided to all HCWs involved in the intrapartum management of untested asymptomatic patients.
Opinion
Obstetrics during the COVID-19 pandemic
May 6, 2020
Leading with compassion is vital to easing pregnant patients’ – and ob.gyn. practitioners’ – anxiety and stress.
Opinion
Fountains of Wayne, and a hospitalist’s first day, remembered
May 5, 2020
A tribute to Adam Schlesinger, and all the others who have lost their lives to COVID-19.
Opinion
Doctor with a mask: Enhancing communication and empathy
May 5, 2020
Social distancing is amounting to social isolation for many patients.
Opinion
COVID-19: Social distancing with young children
May 4, 2020
Child development experts think the challenges that parents had with young children before COVID-19 are exacerbated by the current stress, Dr. Dinah Miller said.
Opinion
COVID-19: To have and to hold … in quarantine
May 4, 2020
All of us can benefit from these skills, especially emotionally volatile couples who are trapped together in quarantine, Dr. Dara Abraham said.
Opinion
COVID-19: Addressing the mental health needs of clinicians
May 1, 2020
Health care workers might be facing a “care paradox,” in which they must choose between their patients’ safety and their own.
Opinion
Reproductive psychiatry during the COVID-19 pandemic
April 29, 2020
Maternal psychiatric well-being during pregnancy is a strong predictor of obstetrical and neonatal outcomes, and postpartum mental health.
Opinion
COVID-19: Loss and grief without an expiration date
April 27, 2020
The lack of certainty about when the losses caused by the pandemic will end makes it difficult to process and mourn appropriately, Dr. Dara Abraham said.
Opinion
Transitions: From editor to president
April 21, 2020
Dr. Danielle Scheurer is the outgoing medical editor of The Hospitalist, and president-elect of SHM.