PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. 2013-0421 Tighe M, Afzal NA, Bevan A, et al. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

And for all the ways in which every single case of brain death is so complicated, you might step back and say that brain death is working out okay in the real world, right? Winston 33:31 2013. You know, we have cases like the McMath case, but again, you know, those. Eric 33:27 Are outliers, like, most of the time.

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JULY 16, 2024

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

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