Three Things Schools Should Do to Make Advancement Assessment Just.

This article considers how student advancement assessment in American medical schools undermines equity. Although much attention is paid to admissions processes' capacity to diversify the physician workforce, students' advancement has been neglected as the next key step along their journeys toward graduation and residency training. This article canvasses common ways advancement undermines equity and suggests 3 areas of focus.

Prevalence of Suspicious Ultrasound Features in Hot Thyroid Nodules.

Ultrasound for patients with hyperthyroidism and thyroid hot nodules is of limited value, given the high prevalence of suspicious findings, but may be useful for patients with high-risk factors.

Spice-y Kidney Failure: A Case Report and Systematic Review of Acute Kidney Injury Attributable to the Use of Synthetic Cannabis.

Introduction: Spice is a synthetic cannabinoid that is readily available for purchase in smoke shops at relatively low cost. Spice is not detectable upon routine drug screening, making it an increasingly popular new street drug.

Case Report: A 21-year-old man presented with new-onset seizures.

Shared Responsibility: Massachusetts Legislators, Physicians, and An Act Relative to Substance Use Treatment, Education, and Prevention.

Recent passage of the Massachusetts law, An Act Relative to Substance Use, Treatment, Education, and Prevention, represents an admirable public health approach to substance use disorder (SUD), a stigmatized chronic disease that affects some of society's most vulnerable people. With its seven-day supply limit on first-time opioid prescriptions, this legislation takes an unusual approach to state government involvement in health care. By intervening in individual physicians' practices, state legislators have entered a space traditionally reserved for clinical teams.