News
- Author:
- Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
Publish date: November 15, 2024
Retired physician soon to start seventh year as an inpatient, acute-care cardiologist.
News
- Author:
- Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
Publish date: August 23, 2024
Misunderstood TRICC trial enrolled critical anemic patients stable after fluid resuscitation and not actively bleeding.
Opinion
- Author:
- Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
Publish date: June 14, 2024
Dr. Walton-Shirley describes changes needed to renew DEA licenses so that others who prescribe very few narcotics do not have to spend so much time...
Opinion
- Author:
- Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
Publish date: October 19, 2023
Cannabis-related emergency department visits from all acute-care hospitals in California increased by 1,808% from 2005 to 2019 in patients aged 65 ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
Publish date: June 26, 2023
If more trials on artificial sweeteners are planned, they should be performed on people doing human things – which does not include ingesting 60 pa...
Opinion
- Author:
- Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
Publish date: October 11, 2022
Enthusiastic presentations on the use of AI in medicine at a recent conference left this cardiologist concerned about the potential loss of human i...
News
- Author:
- Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
Publish date: February 14, 2022
Pandemic-era physicians must now consider whether a politically motivated choice to decline COVID-19 vaccination should negatively affect the chanc...
News
- Author:
- Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
Publish date: October 22, 2021
Some older adults have mitigated their risk for myocardial infarction by taking aspirin, says doctor.
News
- Author:
- Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD
Publish date: March 2, 2021
The firing of a physician who made use of soon-to-expire COVID-19 vaccine doses rather than flush them epitomizes the loss of physician autonomy an...
