- "Good patient care is found not on a computer screen but in being truly present with patients," Abraham Verghese writes in Health Affairs ~ The Importance Of Being
- David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, and James Morone, PhD, discuss the ways in which the presidential candidates' stances on healthcare mirror those of their predecessors, in the New England Journal of Medicine ~ Past as Prologue -- Presidential Politics and Health Policy
- Why has medical school pushed some students to their deaths? Nathaniel Morris asks in The Washington Post ~ Medical school can be brutal, and it's making many of us suicidal
- Matt Apuzzo, Sheri Fink and James Risen explore the true psychological damage of torture, in The New York Times ~ How U.S. Torture Left a Legacy of Damaged Minds
- "As more people die from overdoses than ever before, their organs -- donated in advance by them or after the fact by their families -- are saving lives of people who might otherwise die waiting for a transplant," Katharine Q. Seelye writes in The New York Times ~ As Drug Deaths Soar, a Silver Lining for Transplant Patients
- Julie Appleby shares this graphic that outlines the money trail associated with brand name drugs, in Kaiser Health News ~ Tracking Who Makes Money On A Brand-Name Drug
- The rate of uninsured Americans continues to decline, Laura Skopec, Genevieve Kenney, and Stephen Zuckerman report in The Health Care Blog ~ The Uninsured Drop Slowed But Continued Between 2014 And 2015
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.