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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

SkinIO , Scanoma , Miiskin , FirstDerm , Direct Derm , iDoc24 , and SkinVision all work based on the same principle: they promise patients the option to self-check their symptoms and then to connect to a dermatologist online for consultation within a very short period of time. Cureskin aims to help alleviate the situation.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. So in this case consultations. Because now it requires another step to cancel the consult.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. A short-term sore throat may resolve on its own — monitor symptoms or consult a primary care doctor. The provider examines your throat, may perform tests like a strep test, and diagnoses the cause. A doctor can help determine the cause.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. So, again, to reinforce, since IEMs have very specific non specific presentations, the goal in the ER is not to specifically diagnose the IEM. Pediatr Rev.

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Going beyond the surface material: A podcast episode on cellulitis

PEMBlog

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2014; 59:e10. If you think that there’s an abscess, you can diagnose it clinically by a localized area of induration or fluctuance or use an ultrasound.

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. And in 2014, the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services temporarily lifted all prior authorization requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries seeking rehabilitative behavioral health services.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Nat Genet 2014; 46:1274. Simple febrile seizures do not require neurology consults or admissions. And then there’s genetic epilepsy plus febrile seizures, which you are not going to diagnose in the ED. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available from: [link] Feenstra B, Pasternak B, Geller F, et al.

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