This comic tells the true story of a hospitalist physician learning from a patient how to slow down. It is a commentary on the isolating experience of hospitalization-magnified for patients by infection control precautions and hospital restrictions
This study explores the potential of using physical infrastructure as a "social sensor" for identifying marginalized communities. Prior work tends to explore biases in infrastructure as a retrospective "social autopsy". Instead, our study aims to
INTRODUCTION: Health disparities exist at every step of the HIV care continuum (HCC) among racial/ethnic minority population. Such racial/ethnic disparities may have significantly delayed the progress in HCC in the Southern US states that are
CONCLUSIONS: Blood group O is more prevalent among patients with VITT-CVT after ChAdOx1-S vaccination compared with unvaccinated cases, independent of well-established CVT risk factors. A larger dataset may be able to determine whether those of blood
Cyclophosphamide (CP) is an antineoplastic drug commonly used worldwide. Despite its spread, it causes fatal organ toxicity. Lung toxicity is a serious side effect of CP. Actually, in the past three years the world has been facing an un-predicted
COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been studied and reported widely since November 2019, after its first case was detected in Wuhan, China. It has proven to be a fatal disease worldwide. COVID-19 causes severe disease in patients with
Acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS) is a common critical disease with high morbidity and mortality rates, yet specific and effective treatments for it are currently lacking. ARDS was especially apparent and rampant during the COVID-19 pandemic
CONCLUSIONS: Our results allow one to select the stressful events to which, in the pandemic era, it is necessary to pay particular attention in a clinical setting and suggest the implementation of psychological interventions that make emotion
CONCLUSIONS: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the population is evident. The decision to analyze uncertainty, alexithymia and contamination as relevant issues brought the need to analyze a dynamic of conscious suppression of disturbing contents