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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. He had easy work of breathing, and physical exam was only notable for decreased breath sounds over the left lower lobe. What’s the Diagnosis? 2004 Nov;49(4):302-9. This is the second of the four cases.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. 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.

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