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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

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Research suggests most CXRs are performed because ED clinicians (and many parents) are concerned for the possibility of missing pneumonia or another diagnosis requiring specific management. But it’s just a CXR right?

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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But I think where it ends up causing problems is just if they’re going to have many sessions, transport to and from, and just the overall cost that can be essentially not feasible for the hospice. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain. Procedure as well as the treatments.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. We’re not trained to consider this to be part of pain management. Should they?

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