Recent content by fever5

Hi, at our school we have problem solving sessions based on systems. Does anyone know of a really good book that has clinical cases broken down by systems (e.g. Endocrine, Kidney, Reproductive). I am looking for a book that ideally would have multiple cases per unit (not just 3 or 4), with...

Sorry to break it to me? Whoa look at you!!! Touchy touchy (is this anti-MD hostility I am feeling)? As I said before, legally, a chiropractor is many areas of the US is defined as a doctor. Don't believe me check out this site that a quick search turned up...

I wouldn't want my grandmother to read it either. But she's not going into med school or in it. Vulgar and pornographic? okay...sure. The overall theme is survival in the absurdity of the medical system. So start praying, because for the most part the medical profession IS what the...

Actually chiropractors ARE physicians, defined legally. All physicians do not have the same scope of practice. Just like a GP (MD/DO) doesn't practice neurology, a chiropractor may not practice most fields of MD/DO medicine, but rather they focus on a more specialized area. I don't know...

As an MD student, I am not going to start the old DO vs MD rant. It would be silly as both schools achieve the same common goal. But I take issue with MDs being maligned as ‘distant’ and incompetent doctors based on a few subjective experiences. So let’s be fair. Can I really say that since...

I recommend House of God by Samuel Shem. If not now, after 3rd or 4th year. Vulgar and pornographic? Maybe from an innocent perspective. Although it is 'fiction', I felt I could relate to many of the experiences in the book. I have never laughed as hard and as long in recent memory as I did...

why is this posted in pre-med? how many pre-meds are taught how to write findings of a history/physical? how many pre-meds are taught how to order basic tests like C&S, CBCs, etc? 0 yes a lot of practicing docs have horrible handwritting and knowledge of drugs that they order. worse yet...

Well besides the neurologist diagnosis of TGA, it was more than just s/s. Precipitating factors, duration of event, even type of memory loss was exactly as described by the diagnostic criteria of Caplan, Hodges and Warlow. Psychiatric fugue, although I believe occured in his past according...

He's a radiologist who does lots of chest CT, thus he's all about keeping arteries clean. He has put himself on ASA for as long as I can remeber. (He's even tried to convince me to go on it, but I hold off for another 9 years or so) He was planning on putting himself on another blood thinner...

Well, as it turns out he is much better today. Slight memories problems, retrograde amnesia 12 hours prior to incedent. However functioning much better, and we expect him to be completely fine tommorow after some rest. He had an MRI with absolutely no findings. No sign of aetherosclerosis or...

Yesterday (a few hours ago), my dad, presented with what the neurologist believes is a transient global amnesia event. He is 58, about 20-30 (?) pounds overweight, hypertensive, but controlled and treated for it, no family history of cardiovascular events. I am onlhy in Med I, and am slighlty...

thanks for both of your comments. very helpful; thanks.

I'm currently a med I student in a pr session about head trauma. dicussion came to drugs used in medically induced comas. An initial search of UptoDate and Pub med didn't turn up anything useful. Does anyone know if they use long acting benzo or a barbiturate or another class for a...

you're getting the wrong vibe. what I didn't mention is our school always goes out of its way to accommodate students. alternate times for gross labs are arranged with the student on a case by case basis after pregnancy is completed. this has occurred twice this year already. I would...

have you checked with your school? are masks allowed? at our school, although the levels of solvents are kept below regulations, they still do not let pregnant women into the labs for any reason.