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Answer to Medical Challenge | Difficulty Swallowing
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Hold That Thought: Walking Through Doorways Makes Us Forget
Are you sitting down as you’re reading this? If not, you may want to – chances are, if you’re browsing this on your iPhone while walking to the fridge, you’ll forget what you were reading about by the...
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Mediku | Family Medicine
Family medicine docs don’t have it easy – they have to triage up to a dozen complaints per patient and decide what to address at the current visit and what can/should wait, ensure the patient is being...
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Running Subcuticular Suture Technique
Suturing is an important part of several clerkships, and whether or not you’re going to be a surgeon, I believe it’s just proper form for a physician to be able to suture half-decently....
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Terrible Medical Terms | Abnormal Facies
Ask anyone in the medical field and they will tell you that part of their training essentially consists of learning a new language. Medical terminology is our solution for allowing practitioners to...
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Rise of the Machines
I recently observed my first robot-assisted operation with the da Vinci surgical system (left). It’s designed to allow for surgery that’s less invasive and more precise, resulting in shorter hospital...
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Mediku | You Say ‘To-may-toh,’ I Say ‘To-mah-toh’
So, as Obstetrics & Gynecology comes to a close, I’ve noticed something – just as in other surgical specialties, old school docs and nurses love to use the term “sontimeter” in place of centimeter....
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Childhood Obesity: The Elephant in the Room
Since March is National Nutrition Month, and because I’m still on my pediatrics clerkship, I thought “What better time to write about childhood obesity?” In recent years, childhood overweight and...
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At Odds: Quantity vs. Quality
As a medical student who just completed this third year of training, I took special interest in Dr. Pauline Chen’s recent article about Harvard Medical School’s “Integrated Clerkship” – a program that...
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Time to Ditch the BMI?
I’ve been interested in health and nutrition since I started playing high school sports. During my 3 year stint as a personal trainer, I developed a distinct opinion of the Body Mass Index (or BMI –...
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2011-2012: The Year in Clinicals
It’s easy to get caught up in the tests and scutwork that dominate the third and fourth years of medical school. Students are eager to get out of the classroom and into the hospital full-time, but...
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Medical Challenge | A Young Man with Bloody Stool
You are the GI fellow consulted to see a 17 year old white male with a chief complaint of diarrhea & bright red blood per rectum (BRBPR). The patient was in his usual state of health until he...
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Answer to Medical Challenge | A Young Man with Bloody Stool
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Time Out – Does Milk Ruin Tea Time?
For centuries, certain cultures have customarily added milk to fresh-brewed tea – but in recent years, scientists in laboratories around the world have been “hotly” debating whether this...
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Mediku | Pincushins
This month, I’m spending my days working with a rheumatology practice. It’s interesting to see the kinds of things the group is consulted on in the hospital – but in the office it’s mostly NSAIDs and...
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Mediku | Well, I’m Allergic to Bullsh*t
This mediku comes from my buddy Vince (@ER_DrTobe2013) and was inspired by an all-too-common occurrence in his field of his choice, Emergency Medicine. Patients who are so-called “frequent-fliers” are...
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Talking About Obesity
During my family medicine rotation, I noticed the physicians I worked with focused more time on weight management than in any other outpatient clinic I had worked in. Recently, while on a less...
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Mediku | Café World
ICU beds are limited, and are much more expensive than “regular” floor beds (costing up to thousands of dollars each day). Therefore, patients in the ICU are frequently assessed & re-assessed for...
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Medical Apps – Making Life Just That Little Bit Easier
This guest post was written by Niqui Stubbs. Niqui is a 4th year medical student from Leeds, who in her spare time enjoys writing about make-up and fashion at her blog “Confessions of an Addict” – you...
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Medical Challenge | Sudden Pain
Case: A 43 year old female presents to the emergency department complaining of sudden-onset, sharp, left-sided abdominal pain that radiates to the groin, followed by nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea....
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