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Gepotidacin — New Antibiotic or Rare Tropical Bird? • April 3, 2025
Imagine you’re birdwatching in the Costa Rican rainforest, Merlin app in hand. A flash of iridescent blue catches your eye. You scan the canopy and whisper excitedly: Look, it’s the elusive Blujepa! A rare sighting! No, not a real bird, but the brand name of gepotidacin, something rarer — and arguably more exciting — than […]
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Mikita Arora, MD
Madiha Khan, DO
Mikita Arora, MD
Khalid A. Shalaby, MBBCh
Brandon Temte, DO
Insights on Residency Training
Notes from chief residents in family and internal medicine
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Developing Resident Educators • August 19, 2022 • Brandon Temte, DO
We currently find ourselves at the start of another academic year. By this time in August, many medical trainees are settling into new roles. Recently graduated medical students are getting used to hearing Dr. before their name. New senior residents who were interns a short time ago now find themselves leaders of their own teams. […]
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Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2 • September 2, 2022
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK. In treating most exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) the usual regimen consists of prednisone plus 5- to 7-days of antibiotics. But what if a shorter course of antibiotic therapy would do? That would be both convenient for patients and less likely to promote […]
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NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Infectious Diseases Articles- Comparing Antipseudomonal Antibiotics for Managing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacteremia in the ICU
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- Low Rates of Coronary Artery Disease in People with HIV — Uganda
- Cefazolin or Anti-Staphylococcal Beta-Lactams for MSSA?
- Does Prone Positioning Save Lives in Nonintubated Patients with COVID-19?
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent General Medicine Articles
- CRP-Stratified Steroid Prescribing for Severe CAP
- New Guidelines Recommend a Restrictive Red Blood Cell Transfusion Strategy for Most Critically Ill Patients
- Do NSAIDs Cause Marginal Ulcers in Patients After Gastrojejunostomy?
- Risks for Major Congenital Malformations with Smoking-Cessation Medications vs. Smoking
- To Operate or Not to Operate (on Humeral Shaft Fractures): That Is the Question