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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs. So, again, to reinforce, since IEMs have very specific non specific presentations, the goal in the ER is not to specifically diagnose the IEM. In other words, which features of the disease individuals with the mutation show for these conditions.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

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I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. That’s a risk with electronic health records in general. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

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