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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Was Nice to Someone During a Debate. That Doesn’t Erase the Consequences of His Misinformation.

Science Based Medicine

This is what it looks like when doctors treat the pandemic as an intellectual parlor game. The post Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Was Nice to Someone During a Debate. That Doesnt Erase the Consequences of His Misinformation. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Get To Know: Joe McLaughlin - Senior Recruiter Permanent Placement

Core Medical Group

Meet senior recruiter from our permanent placement division, Joe McLaughlin. Joe will help you find your dream healthcare job today.

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New Review Article in Annals of Emergency Medicine: ECG Patterns of Occlusion Myocardial Infarction: A Narrative Review

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ECG Patterns of Occlusion Myocardial Infarction: A Narrative Review

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In the wake of the surgeon general’s guidance on alcohol, what advice do you give your patients about drinking?

Sensible Medicine

Last weekend, I asked John and Adam to put together 400 words on what advice they would give a patient who asked about drinking alcohol. I joined them in this exercise. For the sake of discussion, we imagined a 47 year old man, no medications or past medical history, married with 2 kids, who enjoys 2 generous glasses of red wine a night. He asks (John/Adam or me) “Is that healthy?

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SAEM Clinical Images Series: Painful Weeping Scalp

ALiEM

An otherwise healthy 11-year-old female presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with one week of scalp pain and discharge. Her symptoms began as a dry and itchy rash in the scalp area that was unresponsive to triamcinolone 0.1% ointment. She was initially seen in clinic and was diagnosed with an abscess of the scalp and treated with Trimethoprim/ Sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) for seven days.

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Continued enteral nutrition until extubation compared with fasting before extubation

The Bottom Line

Continued enteral nutrition until extubation compared with fasting before extubation in patients in the intensive care unit: an open-label, cluster-randomised, parallel-group, non-inferiority trial Landais et al. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 2023. 11:319-28. doi://10.

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It’s Your Call – January 2025

Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

OSHA/Infection Control: What are the three ways to sterilize instruments used on patients? Sterilization of instruments achieves destruction of all forms of microbial life either by physical or chemical methods. There are different ways available to sterilize critical and semi-critical instruments/items utilizing either high or low temperature methods.

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