Clinical Conversations

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From NEJM Journal Watch, this podcast features lively interviews, concise summaries, and expert commentary that busy clinicians need to stay current and improve patient care.

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Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2

Sep 02 2022 14 mins  
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK. In treating most exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) the usual regimen consists ...

Podcast 301: Monkeypox — what to look for, how to treat

Aug 19 2022 17 mins  
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE. This time, we look to New York for guidance on recognizing and treating monkeypox. Dr. Eric Meyerowitz ...

Podcast 300: NADIM II trial offers “quite exciting” results in lung cancer

Aug 11 2022 9 mins  
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE. We’re back with another interview from this year’s IASLC conference. This time, Christine Sadlowski and Dr. Julia ...

Podcast 299: Lung cancer and atezolizumab — results from the IMpower010 trial

Aug 09 2022 14 mins  
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE. Interim results on overall survival in phase 3 of the IMpower010 trial were presented at this ...

Podcast 297: Forget about all that vitamin D testing!!

Jul 28 2022 12 mins  
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE. THE USUAL AUDIO FILE IS AVAILABLE BELOW Steven Cummings has co-written a take-no-prisoners editorial in the New ...

Podcast 296: A roundtable on the question, Why are young internists flocking to the hospitalist practice style?

Jul 20 2022 29 mins  
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS ROUNDTABLE IS AVAILABLE CLICK HERE. THE USUAL AUDIO FILE IS AVAILABLE BELOW Your host is old enough to remember when hospital ...

Podcast 295: How should clinicians manage severe (but asymptomatic) carotid artery stenosis while awaiting CREST-2’s results?

Jul 06 2022 15 mins  
CREST-2’s results are probably more than a year away. In the meantime, what to do about diagnosed severe (but asymptomatic) carotid stenosis? Recent results ...

Podcast 294: PD-1 blockade in locally advanced rectal cancer

Jun 29 2022 13 mins  
Locally advanced rectal cancer usually receives a three-part treatment: chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy and then surgery. In a small-cohort study presented at this year’s ASCO ...

Podcast 293: HER2-“low” breast cancer and its reponse to an antibody-drug conjugate

Jun 27 2022 11 mins  
Patients with metastatic breast cancer whose tumors express low levels of HER2 are generally classified and treated as having HER2-negative disease. However, Dr. Shanu Modi ...

Podcast 292: Informed consent and apnea testing for death — or — What is death, anyway?

Jun 17 2022 14 mins  
Apnea testing is part of the protocol used to determine whether a patient is dead according to neurologic criteria. The question is, do clinicians ...