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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

Preventive Care Primary doctors can offer preventive care to their patients, which typically includes check-ups and screenings to prevent them from contracting illnesses. Primary care physicians can also provide health promotion education or counseling to help patients care for themselves.

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Problem Representation

The Clinical Problem Solvers

A problem representation (PR, or Summary Statement) is an evolving, concise summary that highlights the defining features of a case , helping clinicians generate a focused differential diagnosis and identify the next steps in diagnosis and treatment. His past medical history is significant for hypertension and diabetes mellitus.

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Episode 90: Clinical unknown with Rabih and Reza at MUSC – fever

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Marc Heincelman Marc Heincelman is an assistant professor within the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he also serves as director of the Medicine Clerkship and Acting Internship. She was then started on empiric doxycycline, which resulted in prompt resolution of her fevers.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. The drug helped decrease the initial healing from 5 days.

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Lupus Emergencies in Children and Adolescents

PEMBlog

Laboratory Findings: Elevated LDH Low haptoglobin Positive Coombs test Cytopenias Treatment: First-line: High-dose corticosteroids Adjunct: IVIg for thrombocytopenia Refractory: Rituximab Pearls: Evans syndrome or isolated ITP may precede SLE diagnosis. DVT symptoms or syncope may precede PE diagnosis.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. Why then do we persist with the “is it medical/organic or psych” question? We have developed a series of pain focused episodes. Government.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

However, the core problem in our medical system is yet to be addressed which actually results in these unfortunate incidents. This may result in errors in the diagnosis of the patient whom the doctor was examining initially. Also, there is nothing wrong with making money in a legal way without compromising medical ethics.