Are frum doctors fated to become an endangered species? An investigative report into a looming problem
Chana Weinstock Neuberger, MD, a medical oncologist in Baltimore, learned many things in medical school. But during her first week of residency, she heard an unfamiliar term from fellow doctors that never appeared in the curriculum.
“Are you Shabbotaged this month?” she heard one asking another.
In her internal medicine residency program at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, NY, which arranged shifts in order to accommodate the shomer Shabbos doctors, their colleagues who took the Saturday calls instead were “Shabbotaged,” a portmanteau of “Shabbos” and “sabotage” in other words, sabotaged by Shabbos.
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Why Department of Homeland Security leadership is vital for battling the COVID-19 pandemic
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A successful transition from the Trump administration will be essential as America braces itself for record-breaking hospitalizations and mortality due to SARS-CoV-2. Beyond the COVID-19 Task Force of the Biden Administration, new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leadership will also play a vital role in assuring our health care workforce’s capacity. Recently, the Biden Administration announced Alejandro Mayorkas as his pick to lead DHS. His choice signaled a move to reinstate stability after a series of rotating DHS leadership. Ironically, the DHS pick could also be a part of the solution to prevent further instability of the U.S. public health system, hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Teaching Residents to Follow the Evidence
Teaching Residents to Follow the Evidence
December 14, 2020, 2:41 pm David Mitchell Corey Lyon, D.O., didn’t set out to be a writer or an editor, but his passion for teaching and evidence-based medicine put him on a career path to be both. It’s a path he hopes other family physicians will follow.
“There’s a lot of information out there, and with access the internet provides, it’s easy to get confused on what information to use,” said Lyon, who serves as board chair of the
Family Physicians Inquiries Network. “Physicians have to know what to believe and what to trust. It is important to understand how to critically appraise the literature by understanding levels of evidence and validity of what you’re reading, which will assist you in determining how to use this new knowledge in medical decision-making.”