Clinical Guide
Summer Health Watch
July and August bring two of the most consistent clinical challenges of the year — heat-related illness and tick-borne disease. Both are preventable, both are underdiagnosed, and both are worth a proactive conversation with your patients before they show up in your exam room. Heat-Related Illness: Know the Spectrum Heat-related illnesses range from mild presentations…
Read More36 Years of the ADA: What It Means for Your Practice
This Sunday, July 26, marks the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act — a milestone worth noting, especially because several new compliance deadlines affecting physician practices have either just passed or are right around the corner. Under Title III of the ADA, medical offices and hospitals are classified as “public accommodations,” which means…
Read MoreThe Heat is On: Resources for Patients to Stay Safe This Summer
The Independence Day heat wave was not just uncomfortable. It was a mass casualty event in slow motion. More than 470 heat-related emergency room visits were recorded during the week of June 28 through July 4 — more ER visits in that single week than in the entire heat period since May. Statewide, there had…
Read MoreThe Quiet Crisis Affecting LGBTQ+ Physicians and Their Patients
We’re closing MCMS Pride Month coverage for June 2026 with the research that sits underneath everything else we’ve shared this month. Two studies published in the past year document what’s happening to LGBTQ+ people in medicine right now, on both sides of the exam room. The picture isn’t good, and it has practical implications for…
Read MoreJune is Pride Month: LGBTQ+ Healthcare Resources
LGBTQ+ Health Resources in Montgomery County: A Physician’s Guide Montgomery County has more LGBTQ+ residents per capita than most Maryland jurisdictions, but a 2024 report from the Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO) found the County functions as a healthcare “desert” for transgender patients. Only three clinics offer any gender-affirming services, and none specializes exclusively in…
Read MorePolycystic ovary syndrome is more than ovarian
Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, M.D. Montgomery Fertility Center The name polycystic ovary syndrome may have unintentionally narrowed how medicine understood one of the most common endocrine disorders affecting women. The ovaries were visible. The deeper physiology was not. For decades, the syndrome was largely framed around irregular ovulation, infertility, excess androgen symptoms, and the characteristic “string of…
Read MoreHantavirus and the Andes Virus Outbreak
What Maryland Physicians Need to Know An active multi-country outbreak of Andes virus, the only hantavirus strain capable of person-to-person transmission, has prompted the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) to begin monitoring two state residents following potential exposure. While confirmed cases remain far from Maryland and the risk to patients is considered very low, the…
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