candida fungal infection with stimulator
Had a weird case a couple of weeks ago. My partner, who is an outstanding technical surgeon for implants (one of the best I have seen) had a stim follow up while he was on vacation. The wounds were dehiscing and the incisions looked odd (my partner has had only two infections over a 25 year career, so he is pretty damn good). I took her to the OR and removed the stim, packing the incisions open. Initial cultures were negative, but eventually grew candida. This patient was a diabetic with a...
candida fungal infection with stimulator (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - February 20, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: hawkeye2009 Tags: Pain Medicine Source Type: forums
Upcoming DAT - Type 1 Diabetic
I hope everyone is doing great!
As I prep for the DAT, I've been looking into the 'processes' involved for me taking the exam as a type 1 diabetic and what I need to do to make sure all is okay with items such as insulin pump/having a juice for potential low blood sugar, etc. I know they have to be pretty tight on rules (no phones etc.) but I just want to make sure all would be okay if for instance my insulin pump was alerting me on an upcoming low blood sugar and I had to click the button...
Upcoming DAT - Type 1 Diabetic (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - February 5, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: tmatt1212! Tags: DAT Discussions Source Type: forums
Re: Partha Kar: What will the 2020s hold for diabetes care?
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Source: BMJ Comments - January 31, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy free of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study
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Source: BMJ Comments - January 24, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
MS1-MS2 doesn't teach you bread and butter medicine in enough detail
Just reflecting that in ms1-ms2, I really think that there was excessive emphasis on zebras without enough relative emphasis on day to day medicine. Learning about conditions that are 1 in 1 million really doesn't carry the same value as learning about diabetes. And quite frankly a small chunk of First Aid teaches you virtually useless facts that have literally 0 clinical utility, ever.
The solution is to get rid of that chunk, maybe 10-15% of it. And replace it with high-yield facts that...
MS1-MS2 doesn't teach you bread and butter medicine in enough detail (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - January 23, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: MedicineZ0Z Tags: Medical Students - MD Source Type: forums
nodal relapse 9y after RP and PORT for prostatic carcinoma
75 years old patient, with controlled diabetes and hypertension, very fit.
he underwent in 2009, a radical prostatectomy followed 30 fractions of adjuvant 3D conformal radiation therapy to the prostatic bed only.
in 2018: PSA rise to 2.16
2019: PSA 2.16
Pet PSMA showed a 7 mm LN at the level of L4-5 secondary lesion, with no recurrence in the tumor bed, neither in bone or other LNs.
He was put on decapeptyl + casodex.
please vote the poll (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - January 22, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Kroll2013 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
Re: Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy free of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study
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Source: BMJ Comments - January 17, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
When to refer to specialist?
I am a resident in midwest unopposed program, small town. We have specialists in some areas (cardiology) but not others (endo) and it has shaped our referral patterns and training for common stuff pretty heavily. For example, folks in my program don't touch cardiac meds in chf patients because "cardio is already on board." There isn't an endo for hours out, so we tend to take on some of the more challenging diabetes cases because of lack of access. I'm not 100% convinced we do a great job...
When to refer to specialist? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - December 23, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: SXMMD Tags: Family Medicine Source Type: forums
On the associations between maternal diabetes during pregnancy and early onset cardiovascular disease in offspring
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Source: BMJ Comments - December 15, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
What schools should I apply to
Go to top 20 university
GPA: 3.7
SGPA: 3.65
MCAT: 518
Michigan is instate
Research: ~900 hours
Clinical Volunteering: 200 hours
Volunteering: 150-300 hrs
Shadowing: 60 hours
Leadership/activities:
Tutor for 3 years, Newspaper reporter, and Co-director of an org that is assisting a health education center with creating a more health aware community (helping with diabetes, nutrition guidance, and made a health curriculum for kids)
I’m a first gen college kid too.
I’ve had one poster...
What schools should I apply to (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - December 11, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: YungAladdin23 Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
How do you deal with those pain sesking patients?
I have this 20 year old male on dialysis secondary to uncontrolled diabetes who came in with intractable abdominal pain nausea and vomiting.Dont get me wrong hes not on any chronic opiod regimen so dont want to jump to conclusions but his pain is 20/10 getting fentanyl 25 q3 hrs. Ct abdomen completely normal. Egd normal. BP normal, Labs nml Tried reglan for concern for gastroparesis yet nothing. Tried to wean this guy off fentanyl and his mom throws a tantrum that he is in so much pain. No...
How do you deal with those pain sesking patients? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - December 7, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Cadet133 Tags: Internal Medicine and IM Subspecialties Source Type: forums
