Science Based Medicine

MAY 14, 2023

A article published in The Atlantic implored people to take detransitioners seriously but did so by perpetuating non-evidence-based tropes that harm both detransitioners and transgender people The post Detransition, Retransition, and What Everyone Gets Wrong first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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SheMD

MAY 14, 2023

Dr. Karen Tran-Harding joins us on the blog to discuss how we often "fail" in medicine when we are striving for perfection, but how those "failures" are actually opportunities for growth and do NOT make us a FAILURE as a physician. In fact, if we approach them correctly, they will make us stronger physicians in the long run. This post contains affiliate links.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 14, 2023

Recently, I had dinner with a friend and colleague visiting San Francisco for the SWOG (Southwest oncology group) conference. SWOG is a cooperative group-- nominally a collection of academic doctors who are supposed to run trials as a counterweight to pharma; guided by doing what is best for patients not profits. My colleague attended these sessions dutifully.

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Maria Yang, MD

MAY 14, 2023

Artwork by Pascal Campion Since my last post , I have recovered from illness, though spasms of coughing still occasionally overtake me. Other circumstances have changed, too, that have highlighted to me the importance of spending time with people we love. American culture often focuses on becoming financial millionaires when becoming time millionaires is vastly more important.

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Board Bombs

MAY 14, 2023

Lemierre’s Syndrome? Sacrébleu! This is a nasty, rare complication of pharyngitis, but it’s much more common than Rheumatic fever. Let’s nail the diagnosis and treatment on this nasty F. necrophorum infection. Want to experience the greatest in board studying? Check out our interactive question bank podcast- the FIRST of its kind here: emrapidbombs.supercast.com.

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University of Maryland Department of Emergency Med

MAY 14, 2023

Did you know that you can use the linear probe with pulse wave (PW) doppler over the femoral artery to look for a pulse during CPR pauses?

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Pediatric Education

MAY 14, 2023

Patient Presentation A 9-month-old, previously healthy, male came to clinic for followup 2 days after being discharged from the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). He had been diagnosed with croup as an outpatient in clinic and started on dexamethasone. That night he worsened and was taken to the emergency room and was admitted to the PICU because of respiratory distress.

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