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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Patients can receive consultations, diagnosis, and treatment without needing an overnight stay. Sudden flare-ups of chronic conditions can also necessitate immediate care.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

In January of last year, Cole went to a Walgreens in Appleton, Wisconsin, to get refills on the medication he used to control his asthma. A few days later, he had a massive asthma attack. Bea Bosco is our consulting director of operations. He’d been taking it for years, and he expected to pay about seventy bucks.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

We included people with bronchial asthma and many people with paralysis, paraplegia. And I’ll share that my own relationship with my father, who was a doctor, was a complicated one. So, though the Lands Commission brought up the phrase, serious health related suffering only in 2017, I realized that’s what we were treating.

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