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Seed Oils: Real Harm or Just Another Food Fear Fad?

Sensible Medicine

Two health obsessions that I’ve never really understood are the supposed benefits of vitamin D (for every imaginable ill) and harm of seed oils. Dr. Bobby Dubois thinks a lot about the evidence behind health recommendations on his podcast. His research has led him to a pretty clear opinion about the role of seed oils in health and disease. Attentive Sensible Medicine readers will note that his take is a bit different from that expressed in a recent post.

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Acute chest pain with LBBB and obvious OMI, worsening on serial ECGs, but repeatedly missed by physicians and Marquette 12SL

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This was written by Hans Helseth. He just graduated from college. He has no medical training, but he has read this blog for years. He is an ECG tech who hopes to go to medical school. He has never been poisoned by the STEMI/NSTEMI paradigm because he has never been to medical school. Lucky Hans. You don't need to have medical training to recognize OMI on the ECG.

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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 362

Life in the Fast Lane

Mark Corden Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 362 Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 362 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.

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Education Day – Wednesday, 29th January

Greater Sydney Area HEMS

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Meet Travel PT Mark Zajac

Core Medical Group

Meet traveling physical therapist, Mark Zajac! Get to know Mark and how he found CoreMedical Group as well as his favorite things about traveling with us.

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New "sepsis tests" are here: how well do they work?

PulmCCM

Various new “sepsis tests” have come to market or will soon, claiming to solve the problem of diagnostic imprecision in the early management of suspected sepsis. Could they? The lack of a reliable diagnostic test or universally accepted criteria to diagnose sepsis leads to significant challenges in clinical practice and research. Overly general case definitions and sloppy EMR algorithms result in a high rate of overtreatment with antibiotics due to false positives, as well as delayed

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Healthcare Continuing Education Professionals Day: Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of Patient Care 

American Medical Compliance

A recent Joint Accreditation Data Report shows that healthcare continuing education is expanding to meet the growing needs of the industry. In 2022, the number of organizations providing healthcare training increased from 132 to 146, marking a 10% rise from the previous year. Additionally, learning opportunities saw significant growth, with a 31% increase in training programs and a 13% rise in participation among healthcare professionals.