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Booking a Canadian Endocrinologist for Online Follow-Ups

Dr. Zaar

What to Expect During Your Online Follow-Up: Your endocrinologist will review your recent lab work, ask about symptoms, and adjust your treatment plan. If needed, new lab tests or prescriptions can be ordered immediately. Have your medication list, symptom notes, and lab results ready.

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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. Routine laboratory testing does not need to be performed.

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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

Then, they’ll perform a physical examination, monitor your breathing and oxygen saturation, and listen to your lungs. Lab tests or X-rays may confirm infection or inflammation. How do doctors determine the cause of chest congestion? Doctors typically start with your medical history. Can chest congestion cause RSV?

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

Pamela Wible MD

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

I enjoy seeing patients for all kinds of visits as well – mental health, physicals, GYN concerns, coughs/colds, etc. There are lab tests, imaging studies, vaccines, and screening questions for people in different age groups, as well as for folks with certain lifestyle habits. You can tell me anything!

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

Recognizing Hypertensive Emergencies The end-organ dysfunction component of this diagnosis presents as particular symptoms, physical exam findings, or laboratory and imaging results. Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. A value of > or = 50 ng/mL is considered abnormal.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

I just had lab tests done. I didn’t know which lab test got my lab tests looked on there. All of a sudden, as a 49 year old, I see I have a PSA on my lab test. Well, not recently, like six months, a year ago. I forget when after not having had one and even before I saw the person.