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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

Now, roughly 9% of breast cancer diagnoses are in women under age 45 with this percentage continually rising(1). Conventional Detection and Diagnosis Conventional medicine diagnoses about 90% of DCIS during mammograms. Since many DCIS in situ cases never turn into invasive cancers, these methods can create further health complications.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. 2004 Nov;49(4):302-9. Bronchopulmonary sequestration C.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I was suicidal myself as a physician and I survived that in 2004. ” I’m like “Do you really want to like complicate your life? You see a patient for 20 minutes and diagnose bronchitis, the patient pays you $100. I’ve lost both the men that I dated in medical school to suicide. Not while I was dating them.

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