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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

There is an increasing trend in the number of medico-legal cases filed against doctors and doctors have started practicing defensive medicine (the ordering of tests, procedures, referrals, or avoidance of high-risk patients or procedures, to reduce medico-legal cases) for the sake of their safety. patients show their frustration at doctors.

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

PEMBlog

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. A lot of times when we consult a service, it’s a resident who might be at another hospital. They have to come to our hospital.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. We would make referrals to psycho oncology.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

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Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

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A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

PEMBlog

Well dive into the clinical presentations, including acute and chronic symptoms, the dangers of sudden sniffing death, and the specific risks associated with nitrites, hydrocarbons, and nitrous oxide. It presents as erythema and inflammation around the mouth and nose. I would consult a toxicologist because I know that this is rare.