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

Pamela Wible MD

In 2014, I began reporting human rights violations in medicine after uncovering widespread abuse in medical training and practice via my physician suicide helpline. In medicine, combating illness requires primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Secondary prevention reduces impact of established illness (antidepressants).

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Nat Genet 2014; 46:1274. Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. The majority of children have febrile seizures on the first day of illness. who have more febrile illnesses.

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