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Bup-ing Up Residency: A Dose of Change for OUD Care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context With buprenorphine prescribing restrictions lifted, primary care physicians (PCP) are frequently the first contact for patients who have opioid use disorder (OUD) and require treatment with buprenorphine. Post-rotation, 64% of residents felt more comfortable diagnosing OUD.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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A Case of HPV / Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oropharynx as Seen from a CBCT

CDOCS

Some patients have no symptoms.</p> </p> <p>The overall 5-year survival rate in patients with oropharyngeal cancer is about 52%. However, prognosis for HPV positive survival rate is &gt;80% whereas HPV negative patients have a survival rate of &lt;50%. He hadn&rsquo;t felt well for a while.

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