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For 45 seconds or so, I breathed (unnaturally) deep and fast. Until I started feeling a bit dizzy, and felt some tingling in my fingertips. There’s a lesson about ABGs in the mech...
@davserantes @ASanchez_PS @AnnKumfer @rabihmgeha @DxRxEdu Great question and thanks for the tag. This variability is seen everywhere in the literature, when evaluating other diagno...
Clinical reasoning point for students and residents: Depending on how far along the diagnostic process you are for a given issue, the content/structure of the assessment/plan for...
Wow, I've never thought about this. My two related questions were: 1. Does carvedilol have demonstrated efficacy in BPH 2. How much blood pressure room are we creating by stop...
In most cases of zoster, pain/sensory symptoms precede the rash, often by many days. So it's always worth considering zoster if there's pain in a unilateral distribution that's no...
Controversial opinion: there should not be a “zero falls” goal or “X days since last fall” pride in hospital nursing units. It leads us to shackle many people to their beds unnece...
“Not all that wheezes is asthma,” I’ve heard. True, true. Must have been a pediatrician who popularized that saying… or maybe it was before cigarettes were a thing. Because mayb...
Saturday morning possum story: Steph: Hey there’s a possum in our backyard and it looks sick Me: That’s kind of their baseline look, isn’t it? Never seen a healthy-looking possu...
A lesson about what it means to “look sick” from Elijah Wood and Peter Jackson. Mini🧵 https://t.co/y0T6rIIwmM
Making a thread of some POCUS gifs from @thepocusatlas Will be referring to these during a basic POCUS workshop where learners practice scans on normal volunteers. Non-scanning...
Inpatient doctors, including myself, have a tendency to say a patient is “going home” when we mean they’re being discharged. When someone points out that the patient is actually g...
Let's play a little fremitus game, just for fun: Press the hypothenar edge of your hand firmly against your own ribcage. You're gonna keep it there the whole time while you say s...