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Episode 90: Clinical unknown with Rabih and Reza at MUSC – fever

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] Rabih and Reza tackle a clinical unknown at MUSC with host, Dr. Marc Heincelman. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh, medical degree from Loyola University of Chicago, and completed his combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2014.

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Problem Representation

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Clinical Reasoning Corner: Problem Representation By: Marcela A. de Oliveira Santana and Franco Murillo Reviewed by: Jack Penner Welcome back, Clinical Problem Solvers! The problem representation during the clinical reasoning process The PR is linked to hypothesis-generation and can act as a guide during the diagnostic journey.

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Probiotics don’t improve outcomes in children with acute gastroenteritis

PEMBlog

However, this large study shows that probiotics do not significantly shorten illness duration, improve symptoms, or reduce the need for additional medical visits. 2018 Nov 22;379(21):2002-2014. Parents often use probiotics, like Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG , hoping to reduce the severity of their child’s gastroenteritis. N Engl J Med.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Focus on the Community While the health sector is where illness and ailments are often treated, a person’s health largely manifests outside of the health sector and is impacted by their community and environment. Published June 10, 2014. The Clinical Problem Solvers Podcast. References Mentioned 01:55 Jones, C. 03:55 Jones, C.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Regulating LDTs: A Long and Winding Road In what might sound to some like protesting too much, the PR invokes FDA’s longstanding assertion that IVDs “manufactured” by laboratories are medical devices and that clinical laboratories that develop tests are acting as manufacturers. FDA’s position is, however, only one side of the story.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

During that time, psychologist Herbert Freudenberger volunteered at a New York City free clinic treating addiction. He overheard the term and used it to describe himself and clinic staff in a 1974 article on staff burnout detailing long-term physical and psychological job stress. Primary prevention intervenes before injury (seatbelts).

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. David 04:31 Yes.

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