Science Based Medicine

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If confirmed, Kennedy will keep trashing science and will continue exploiting the trashed science he helps create for his own benefit. The post The Trashing of Science by Robert F Kennedy Jr first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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EMCrit

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

EMCrit RACC-Lit for January 2025 All the literature goodness! EMCrit Project by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM.

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Northwestern EM Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Written by: Dean Hayes (NUEM 27) Edited by: Andrew Long (NUEM 25 ) Expert Commentary by: Rafael Lima, MD A mid 20s male presents to the ED after seizure-like activity. Per the patient's partner at bedside, he had a 2-3 minute convulsive episode and the description is consistent with a likely seizure. The patient has never had a seizure before and is A&Ox4 upon arrival to the ED with reassuring examination.

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St. Emlyn

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Emergency medicine demands constant practice, yet many clinicians experience skills fade due to lack of exposure. Nathalie Pattyn explores how this decline occurs, why its a systemic issue rather than an individual failure, and what changes are needed to maintain competency. The post Podcast – Skills Fade with Nathalie Pattyn at Tactical Trauma 24 appeared first on St.Emlyn's.

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The Trauma Pro

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Missed injuries (or delayed diagnosis in polite conversation) are the bane of any trauma program. Trauma professionals want to know that theyve identified all significant injuries in their patients so no future harm will occur due to them. But what exactly is a missed injury? The definitions tend to vary a bit, which is why their incidence varies so widely in the literature (1 – 39%).

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I’ve written my share about the plight of the primary care doctor in general and the primary care general internist in particular. I’ve sang the praises of the job, bemoaned the disrespect , predicted a frightening future , and shamelessly recruited trainees to my field. In this post a fellow Chicago Internist, Caspian Kuma Folmsbee, makes what I think is a terrific argument that part of our specialty’s problem is that we have drifted away from our true mission, healing the sic

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Stop and Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We featured today a guest post from Dr. Kuma Folmsbee on saving primary care. I loved it because it centered on the core mission of doctoring: helping people who are asking for our help. Medicine excels when we treat illness. Medicine is much trickier when we try to help people who complain of nothing. We also had a podcast discussion about the MAHA movement and other things.

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