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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease — Individualizing Vaccine Recommendations in Adolescent Populations

Although spring has sprung and the peak months of respiratory virus circulation have passed, the 2022-2023 respiratory virus season has been a distinctive one. "Those of us who are involved with respiratory viruses like to say, for example, if you've seen one influenza season, you've seen one influenza season, because they're all distinctive, but this one was very special," said William Schaffner, MD, in a recent interview with 

Dr Schaffner gives a brief update on the current respiratory virus season and shares what his top challenges have been thus far, how vaccine uptake this year compares with last year, and the important role clinicians play in keeping respiratory infection and prevention on the forefront of patients minds. 

William Schaffner, MD, is medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, professor of preventive medicine in the Department of Health Policy and professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN.

 podcast features informative conversations with health care experts, opinion leaders, and prcticing physicians, about what impacts primary care medicine today. 

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William Schaffner, MD, medical director of the NFID, provides an expert recap of the 2022-2023 respiratory virus season for primary care clinicians. 

Respiratory Tripledemic 2022-23: An Expert Recap

The Primary Viewpoints podcast features informative conversations with health care experts, opinion leaders, and practicing physicians, about what impacts primary care medicine today.

In episode 11, incoming American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) president Sterling Ransone, Jr, MD, shares the greatest concerns among AAFP members regarding the upcoming influenza season, including a feared drain on clinic and staff resources.

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"Primary Viewpoints," a podcast from Patient Care Online, brings you an exclusive interview with incoming AAFP president Sterling Ransone, MD. 

Primary Viewpoints Episode 11: AAFP President-elect Discusses Greatest Concerns about Upcoming Flu Season

Episode 9, "Long COVID Review Lead Author Highlights Knowns and Unknowns," features an interview with Ani Nalbandian, MD, a cardiology fellow at Columbia University Vagelos School of Medicine and lead author of a recent comprehensive review of the literature accumulating on post-acute COVID-19 syndrome that was published in the March issue of 

. Dr Nalbandian discusses the research, the findings, and the future. 

"Primary Viewpoints," a podcast from Patient Care Online, brings you an exclusive interview with Ani Nalbandian, MD. 



Primary Viewpoints Episode 9: Long COVID: A Review

In episode 6 of Primary Viewpoints, physician mental health expert Michael Myers, MD, discusses the state of physician mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Primary Viewpoints Episode 6: COVID-19 Impact on Physician Mental Health

In this Special Report on hepatitis C in primary care, the authors have described the various therapeutic options for patients who have HCV infection and what happens when you treat them.

In this podcast, they discuss what happens when you don’t.

Rodger D. MacArthur, MD is Professor of Medicine and Merin Varghese, MD is a Fellow in Infectious Diseases at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Severe outcomes may ensue in a high percentage of patients. The authors discuss the consequences in this brief podcast.

Hepatitis C: What If You Do Not Treat?

New guidelines on the stratification of severity and subsequent treatment of 

 this spring. The guidelines recommend graduated therapy based on criteria that indicate mild to moderate, severe, or severe and complicated disease.

Here, Dr Christina Surawicz, lead author on the guidelines, highlights changes in recommended diagnostic and treatment approaches.

Dr Surawicz is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and section chief of GI at Harborview Medical Center at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is the lead author on revised guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of 

•Polymerase chain reaction assay for toxin B strains will likely replace EIA tests for diagnosis

•Metronidazole remains the choice for mild to moderate disease but may not be adequate for patients with severe or complicated disease who should have initial therapy with vancomycin and sometimes IV metronidazole.

 infection remains difficult to treat; a pulse vancomycin regimen should be tried. Fecal microbiota transplant shows great promise.  


Surawicz CM, Brandt LJ, Binion DG, et al. Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of 

http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v108/n4/full/ajg20134a.html

Recurrent C difficile requires pulse vancomycin therapy; fecal microbiota transplant shows promise.

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