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The Link Between Diabetes and Peripheral Arterial Disease

Vascular Physician

The Link Between Diabetes and Peripheral Arterial Disease Diabetes is a serious health condition that causes a person's blood sugar to rise because their body does not produce or use insulin properly. It is estimated that between 20-30% of people with diabetes also have PAD.

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Reasoning during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Clinical Problem Solvers

No prior history of atrial fibrillation – just hypertension and diabetes. Would I’ve been able to reason my way to his underlying diagnosis from the initial data? I find it awe-inspiring to listen to clinicians pick up on subtle clues and use both intuitive and analytic reasoning to reach a final diagnosis.

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Renal Artery Stenosis: Is It Common & Life Threatening?

Vascular Physician

As a result, your kidneys may not be able to properly function, which can lead to other serious health complications. Narrowed arteries make it harder for oxygen-rich blood to travel from your heart to your kidneys. How Common is RAS? RAS affects over 200,000 people in the United States every year.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. I’m really into fasting but fasting is contraindicated if you’re diabetic and a number of other conditions I saw on the slide (in an earlier talk). Housewives were burned out.

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