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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

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He had easy work of breathing, and physical exam was only notable for decreased breath sounds over the left lower lobe. Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). 2004 Nov;49(4):302-9. However, he developed the fatigue and cough prompting today’s presentation to the ED.

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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. It’s dangerous and unsustainable; emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially for the patients—and for us. You see a patient for 20 minutes and diagnose bronchitis, the patient pays you $100. Not while I was dating them. When they married other women.

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