Biweekly Careers Thread: December 11, 2025

Things I've learned from patients regarding street/OTC products.

Hospitalists -- any good virtual CME options you'd recommend?

palliative care education?

Are AI tools like OpenEvidence dumbing down the workforce, while still leaving critical errors?

UCSF case report of AI-associated psychosis resulting in hospitalization

Antibiotic duration

Global Estimates of Lives and Life-Years Saved by COVID-19 Vaccination During 2020-2024

Post-herpetic neuralgia when usual options don’t get you far- how do you think it through?

Another nuclear verdict - nicu docs chime in

New Essay in the Medical Ethics section of BMJ - Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign

U.S. Veterans Affairs agency plans as many as 35,000 health-care job cuts this month, Washington Post reports

Medicare Part B Diabetic Testing Supplies Requirements

Medelita White Coat Alternative?

Texas sues Epic Systems for an "anticompetitive playbook" and allowing woke to "undermine the sacred rights of parents to protect and oversee their kids’ medical well-being."

Never say never: The problem with goals of care talks and our unwillingness to say the chance of anything is 0%

Prasad Made Up Pediatric COVID Deaths

CDC Data (December 11, 2025): Versus being unvaccinated, COVID-19 vaccination for the 2024-2025 season reduced children ED/UC visits by 45-56%, especially in infants

Do hospital systems and medical centers get civil settlements reported to NPDB and do they have the same consequences?

Obamacare health subsidy to end as US Senate rejects dueling remedies

What made you lightheaded/pass out?

Patient got me in the feels

Doctor groups form united front against RFK Jr’s efforts to limit vaccine access

Clinic administered injectable medication and the Stark Act

Ethics of obtaining consent in procedure rooms & ORs