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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

2024-066854. 2024-066855. And I think that when we’re faced with a child who has one of these diagnoses, that’s where we need to weigh the risks and benefits. We know that nine out of ten children that go to the ER do not go to children’s hospital ERs. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

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Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. 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. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org. Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. And the first one was with Zeke Emanuel. They had no idea. That’s a reasonable idea.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. And in the omnibus bill that was last passed, the waiver was extended through the end of 2024. I distinctly remember being in the ER, trying to recruit patients for this program.

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