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Digital Health: A Guide for Future Clinicians

Mind The Bleep

At medical school, we learn that the digitalis genus of flowering plants (better known as foxgloves, with their finger or thimble-like flowers) have a useful medical application in the drug digoxin (and also as a poison if you enjoy crime fiction). There is also the Federation for Informatics Professionals in Health and Social Care (FEDIP).

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Case Report: Toxic Hypoglycemic Syndrome

ACEP Now

Before arriving at our ED, the patient sought care at an urgent care clinic, where she was prescribed ondansetron without improvement. 4 The association between ackee ingestion and the illness was initially recognized in 1875 and officially documented in 1904. Abdominal exam was benign. Am J Trop Med Hyg. Clin Toxicol.

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Medical Malpractice Insights: A Rare Presentation – Groin pain? Nec fasc? Diabetes? Appendicitis?

EMDocs

She is concerned about food poisoning and says the groin/thigh pain feels like a prior episode of sciatica. Exam is normal except for tenderness as documented in the diagram. She never had a documented abdominal exam. I just failed to document it. An ARNP is able to care for DKA. Temp is 98.7 and pulse 121.