What is Medical Insights?

Medical Insights is a vertical on Op-Med that features study breakdowns, resources, and insights from medical professionals on popular topics in medicine.

What do we accept?

1) Discussion of recently published studies or clinical guidelines, including rebuttals:

• Example: Colonoscopy Prep and GLP-1 Agonists: Rethinking the Timeline for Safe Screening

2) Discussion of the current clinical landscape:

• Examples: The Quiet Rise of a New Nicotine Epidemic; The Day the Weight‑Loss Pill Arrived, the Hard Part Began; Why Dermatology Patients Now Have More Hope Than Ever

3) Treatment recommendations:

• Examples: HFpEF Phenotyping Has Reached an Inflection Point — CADENCE May Define What Comes Next; It’s Time To Prescribe Exercise like We Prescribe Chemotherapy; Office-Based vs. OR Tubes

4) Interviews with medical professionals:

• Example: Novel Ways of Bridging the Gap Between Psychiatry and Primary Care

5) Discussion about holes in treatment or areas where we need more research:

• Example: New Study Places Lithium at Heart of Alzheimer’s, but Human Trials Remain Necessary

Topics we're looking for:

We are especially interested in essays that touch on oncology, dermatology, or rheumatology.

Beyond that, we welcome articles on:

• Off-label peptide injections.
• Testosterone supplementation.
• Polio travel advisory.
• Overprescribing of GLPs.
• Compounded GLPs: issues, legal fight, FDA warnings.
• Rise of colorectal cancer in patients under age 40.
• AI use in medicine: Utah AI prescribing, AI chatbots for surgery.
• Statin relabeling to reduce warnings.
• Removal of black box warning for HRT, boom in HRT use, what’s behind the removal of warning.
• Private equity in primary care, specialty care, surgery.
• The pros and cons of full body MRIs.
• The fast-tracking of the drug approval process.

How to submit:

To submit to Medical Insights, please email the Op-Med inbox directly (opmed@doximity.com) and add subject line "Medical Insights Submission."

Submission guidelines:

• Please hyperlink sources for all claims.
• 1,500 word limit.
• For more detailed guidelines, please refer to the general Op-Med FAQ.

Interested in submitting Medical Insights articles on a regular basis? Apply for the 2026-2027 Op-Med Fellows Program – Medical Insights track! Deadline 6/8.

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