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

Pamela Wible MD

Dr. Shay’s original definition was based upon his patients’ war narratives and Homer’s Iliad (762 B.C.) In 2014, I began reporting human rights violations in medicine after uncovering widespread abuse in medical training and practice via my physician suicide helpline. Let’s not waver on the truth.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Nat Genet 2014; 46:1274. Both the motor movements and characteristics of the seizure, as well as the duration, are really hard to assess in a patient’s home. Labs just aren’t necessary. And so even in complex febrile seizures, if the child recovers, EEG or MRI may be the only test, if any, that they need.

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