E. Wesley Ely

Jan 23, 2025 | ama-assn.org | E. Wesley Ely |Atul Gawande |Jerome Groopman |Steven D. Levitt

The physician’s day rises and falls with the written word: an unexpected laboratory result, a practice-changing medical journal publication or a news story about a trend affecting patients’ access to care. But there may be an opportunity for physicians to dive into some longer and more rewarding reads.

Oct 2, 2024 | nature.com | E. Wesley Ely

Neurocognitive symptoms, including an impaired ability to process and memorize information, are among the most common and debilitating manifestations of long COVID, a disease experienced by as many as 400 million people worldwide, by one recent estimate (Z. Al-Aly et al. Nature Med. 30, 2148–2164; 2024). These symptoms, which can develop alongside those resulting from diseases of the lungs, heart and other organs, affect patients’ everyday functioning for months or even years following COVID-19.

Jul 31, 2024 | nejm.org | E. Wesley Ely

From the National Academy of Medicine Published July 31, 2024 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsb2408466 For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] The Covid-19 pandemic has been perceived mainly as a dangerous acute outbreak of infection that killed more than a million people in the United States and 7 million worldwide.1,2 However, in the pandemic’s wake, Covid-19 has left many millions more with a variety of chronic, systemic, and often disabling conditions collectively...

Apr 8, 2024 | brownpelicanla.com | E. Wesley Ely

Challenging the “Mediocrity” of Catholic Motherhood, by Julian Kwasniewski By E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, (Blog), National Catholic Register, April 7, 2024E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, is professor of medicine and critical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Nashville VA and president of the Nashville Guild of the Catholic Medical Association.

Oct 24, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | E. Wesley Ely

FICA Faith/Beliefs, Importance, Community Address in care or action HOPE Hope, Organized religion, Personal spirituality, Effects of care and decision SNAP Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients SPIRIT Spiritual belief system, Personal Spirituality, Integration, Rituals/restrictions, Implications, and Terminal events 1 INTRODUCTION “I would suggest that one of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has...