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Fracture Fridays: You can dance if you want to

PEMBlog

The foot X-Ray taken of the foot of the patient with the foot problem The Diagnosis She has a fracture at the base of the 5th metatarsal (Jones fracture). I did come across a randomized trial comparing surgery vs no surgery in which the authors compared 18 patients with casting alone, to 19 who received a bone screw.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #4: Frozen Ever After

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. The mother describes the upper leg as feeling swollen and tense, and the patient cries when the area is touched. This is the last of the four cases. Labs Calcium 10.6 [Reference Range 8.7-10.7 mg/dL] Phosphorus 6.7

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A podcast episode about laryngomalacia

PEMBlog

Early diagnosis is crucial as it can impact a child’s growth and development. Learn all about diagnosis and management of this common problem in this brief podcast episode. Tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia in children: incidence and patient characteristics. 2005 Nov;128(5):3391-7. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database that includes vaccine safety information from millions of patients, according to multiple sources. Scientists say the rise may owe to several factors, including better diagnosis, older parents and genetics, The Wall Street Journal said.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. 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.

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