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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

My first breast cancer scare was in 2014, when they discovered calcifications for the first time during a routine mammogram. They also include mammary ducts that store and transport the milk. Additionally, it’s classified as stage 0, so it’s not nearly as scary as conventional medicine leads us to believe.

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Aneurysms: An Overview

Vascular Physician

This free blood clot can be transported throughout the arteries until it becomes lodged in a narrowed artery away from its original location. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2014; 47:240. Embolization An embolus is a blood clot that has broken off and is now free moving throughout the arterial system.

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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

2014 Feb;103:126-133. For instance, the presence of police and ICE officials in health care settings, along with the use of restraints, are examples of the ways policing has permeated medicine as well. link] Beyond the Bars Conference 2023: Seeding Justice. New York City. link] Metzl JM, Hansen H. Soc Sci Med. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.06.032.

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

Doctor On Demand

If swallowing is extremely painful and the fever is high, you may not have enough time to get to the ER safely without emergency transport. Severe sore throat with a fever of 102°F / 39°C or higher A high fever with intense throat pain could indicate infections that can rapidly obstruct breathing.

ER 52
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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around.

Families 102
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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Make plans to safely transport the child to a tertiary care after stabilization. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available from: [link] Rice GM, Steiner RD. Inborn Errors of Metabolism (Metabolic Disorders). Pediatr Rev. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. doi: 10.1542/pir.2014-0122. PMID: 26729777. Pediatrics.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

We sought to analyse how prescribing trends have changed over time, utilising a dataset containing all prescriptions signed and dispensed in the UK by primary care facilities from January 2014 to November 2020.