Your NEJM Group Today: How Long Should I Isolate? / Poor-Quality Carbs & CV Risk / I.M. & OB/GYN Opportunities

By the Editors

Here's what we chose for you from NEJM Group today:

NEJM Primary Care/Hospitalist Page: Clinical decisions: A young woman is set to be discharged after a 1-week hospital stay for COVID-19. She plans to stay with her parents while she recuperates. She is concerned about the risk for SARS-CoV-2 transmission to her parents — both are over age 65, and her father is taking immunosuppressive medication after recent kidney transplantation. Repeat PCR testing of the patient is positive for SARS-CoV-2. Would you recommend continued isolation, or would you reassure her of the low risk for transmission?

NEJM Journal Watch: Poor-quality carbohydrates are linked to cardiovascular risk and mortality — around the world.

NEJM CareerCenter:

• Internal medicine: MaineHealth has opportunities for internal medicine physicians to join or lead its hospitalist teams at several hospitals.

• OB/GYN: Lexington Women's Care in South Carolina is actively recruiting OB/GYNs.