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FDA Recalls Chocolate Candies Over Milk Allergy Risk

Physician's Weekly

A lab test later confirmed that the candy contained milk, which was not listed on the ingredient label, CBS News explained in a report. No illnesses have been reported so far, but the company has issued a voluntary recall out of caution. The FDA said the issue was discovered after a wholesale customer filed a complaint.

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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

When should the emergency physician obtain lab tests to medically clear such patients? There is abundant evidence showing that routine lab tests in such patients have a very low yield and are not indicated, in adults as well as in children. Decades ago, psychiatric complaints in the pediatric ED were infrequent.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Human rights abuse includes sexual harassment, racism, food/water deprivation, hazing, bullying, pimping, even physical assault—trainees have been hit with knives, punched, and left crying in operating rooms and hospital hallways. In medicine, combating illness requires primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

Some family doctors work in a residency training program where they may see patients in the hospital, out of the hospital, and deliver babies. A primary care doctor knows your entire health history, so we may see your illness/problem in a different light. Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. We find the same thing when you actually measure at the level of the hospital.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. And that over time, if you look at people who have this transformation of acute into chronic pain, the transformation is not linked to the severity of your initial illness or your severe initial injury. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider.