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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 302 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind The medical trivia Christmas FFFF. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 19, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF alcohol Christmas christmas ecg Christmas tree rash christmas tree sign Herald patch molar pregnancy pituitary macroadenoma pityriasis rosea snowman sign snowstorm sign testicular microlithiasis Ultrasound Source Type: blogs
Physicians can ’t do everything for everybody in every visit
How long does it take to diagnose guttate psoriasis versus pityriasis rosea? Swimmers ear versus a ruptured eardrum? A kidney stone? A urinary tract infection? An ankle sprain? So why is the typical “cycle time,” the time it takes for a patient to get through a clinic such as mine for these kinds of problems, […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/a-country-doctor" rel="tag" > Hans Duvefelt, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Brief is Good
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
How long does it take to diagnose guttate psoriasis versus pityriasis rosea? Swimmers ear versus a ruptured eardrum? A kidney stone? A urinary tract infection? An ankle sprain?
So why is the typical “cycle time”, the time it takes for a patient to get through a clinic such as mine for these kinds of problems, close to an hour?
Answer: Mandated screening activities that could actually be done in different ways and not even necessarily in person or in real time!
Guess how many emergency room or urgent care center visits could be avoided and handled in the primary care office if we wer...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Hans Duvefelt primary care Source Type: blogs
The dwindling of the medical lexicon. It matters.
I often wondered what got me here. I am a reader. Give me a book, an apple and a bus ride home and I was lost in the words. Send me to school and make me create 3×5 word cards for hundreds of new words and I was hooked. Then off to high school where science gave me a new vocabulary. Words could be traced to the civilizations of Plato, Confucius, and Freud. Never had the phrase “medicine is an art” intertwined so wisely as when I realized central pontine myelinosis was the illness deemed for the character Monsieur Villefort in The Count of Monte Cristo. The scientific world and literary world unite!
Howev...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 26, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Gita Balakumar, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
How I Break Down Pediatric Rashes
More than once, I’ve heard colleagues and residents make the statement, “I’m no good at pediatric rashes.” The truth is that there is usually a large waste basket of “nonspecific viral exanthems” that are easy to bring to closure in your conversation with parents, and then there are similar-appearing rashes associated with drug reactions.
Then there are the targeted lesions, which include acute annular urticaria or urticaria multiforme, erythema multiforme minor, and serum sickness-like rashes that are frequently confused for each other.
My simplistic approach continues by acknowledging that there are...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - March 31, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
How I Break Down Pediatric Rashes
More than once, I’ve heard colleagues and residents make the statement, “I’m no good at pediatric rashes.” The truth as I see it is that there is usually a large waste basket of “nonspecific viral exanthems” that are easy to bring to closure in your conversation with parents and then similar appearing rashes associated with drug reactions. Then there are the targeted lesions, which include acute annular urticaria or urticaria multiforme, erythema multiforme minor, and serum sickness-like rashes that are frequently confused for each other. My simplistic approach continues by acknowledging that there are rare r...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - March 31, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 66-year-old man with a persistent rash for 6 years’ duration
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 66-year-old man is evaluated for a persistent rash for 6 years’ duration. The rash waxes and wanes in severity, and it becomes pruritic only after he becomes hot and sweating, such as when he mows the lawn or exercises. It has always been limited to his back and lower chest. He has never treated it. The patient is otherwise well, has no other medical problems, and takes no medication.
On physical examination, vital signs are normal. There are small 2- to 3-mm red papules, some with slight scale, on his b...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 14, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: mksap Tags: Conditions Dermatology Source Type: blogs
A Week of Hard but Rewarding Work in Honduras
By Mara Levitt, MD, & Ashley Davis, MD
Honduras, a Central American country bordered by Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, is home to more than eight million people, and produces minerals, coffee, tropical fruit and sugar cane. The capital, Tegucigalpa, is divided into 18 departments; we traveled to Intibuca.
Honduras has the highest rate of homicide in the world. The water supply and sanitation varies from modernized water treatment systems to basic systems, from sewer systems to latrines and basic septic pits. A lack of maintenance leads to poor water quality, and residents’ health varies depending on...
Source: Going Global - November 11, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
A Week of Hard but Rewarding Work in Honduras
By Mara Levitt, MD, & Ashley Davis, MD
Honduras, a Central American country bordered by Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, is home to more than eight million people, and produces minerals, coffee, tropical fruit and sugar cane. The capital, Tegucigalpa, is divided into 18 departments; we traveled to Intibuca.
Honduras has the highest rate of homicide in the world. The water supply and sanitation varies from modernized water treatment systems to basic systems, from sewer systems to latrines and basic septic pits. A lack of maintenance leads to poor water quality, and residents’ health varies depending on whe...
Source: Going Global - November 11, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
