Prathit Kulkarni, MD

1/ Have you ever been confused by prostatitis? When to suspect it? How to diagnose it? How to treat it? Is it acute or chronic? Read on for more information! @sargsyanz @EvaAme...

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Two extremes of modern medicine are: Physical exam is so outdated -- we have all kinds of technological advances now! and H&P solves 90% of cases! All this other stuff is mostly...

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Curious people’s thoughts about the effects of some clinical experience with relatively less frequent conditions. Thread 1/

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Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value can be tricky! See 4-slide thread below to learn the basics!! The key is understanding that pre...

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Discussed w/ @Umair2017 this morning!! Disambiguating commonly used cardiac medications and indications!! Keep reading thread…

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I was inspired by a recent talk given by @sargsyanz about use of empirical Abx in certain clinical scenarios. Suppose a patient has vertebral osteomyelitis or septic arthritis. D...

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Critical teaching point regarding CD4 count interpretation in persons with HIV! 👇👇👇 - CD4 count is back-calculated from the total WBC count. - Total WBC x %lymphocytes —> absol...

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Fascinating results of this Twitter poll! 👇👇👇 Greater than half of respondents never wear a white coat! Seems like a substantial change from just 10 years ago! Some topics that c...

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Fascinating discussion prompted by this tweet regarding consultation practices! 👇👇👇 Here are my own thoughts on this question: 1/ https://t.co/xJN1ZdJNgD

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💡💡 New Publication Alert‼️ 💡💡 Of interest to all those who love Diagnostic Reasoning!!! (And chief residents and others who run Medicine Morning Reports or teach courses in clini...

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The upcoming week is likely to be full of information about monkeypox, so I was happy to team up with @TxID_Edu and @Boghuma to create this 1-page, easy-to-read doc (with refs) abo...

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Wrapping up a couple of weeks of rounding on the ID service. Some useful ID pearls below, I hope! Thread below...

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