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Giving Thanks — This Time to You, Readers of This Thing • November 23, 2023
Most years around this time I post some ID-related things to be grateful for — a research advance, a nice shift in epidemiology showing fewer people are sick and more are living longer, a new drug approval we’ve been eagerly awaiting. That kind of thing. Last year, for example, it was gratitude that mpox had come […]
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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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This podcast features lively interviews, concise summaries, and expert commentary that busy clinicians need to stay current and improve patient care.
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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 […]
The post Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2 first appeared on Clinical Conversations.The views and opinions expressed in these blogs are not necessarily those of NEJM Journal Watch or NEJM Group.
NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Infectious Diseases Articles- Discordant vs. Appropriate Antibiotic Treatment of UTIs Increased Risk for Return Office Visits and Hospitalization
- Do Rituximab-Treated Patients with Rheumatic Diseases Need Prophylaxis Against Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia?
- Sustained Human-to-Human Transmission of Mpox Virus Since 2016
- Persistent Benefit of Long-Acting Cabotegravir for PrEP
- Observations from ID and Beyond: Giving Thanks — This Time to You, Readers of This Thing
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent General Medicine Articles
- Should We Anticoagulate Patients with Transient Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation?
- Smoking Cigarettes Now Is Less Common Than Vaping Nicotine in Young Adults
- Lifestyle Modification Might Help Men with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
- Xylazine: An Increasingly Frequent Adulterant in Fentanyl Street Drugs
- Functional Status vs. NT-ProBNP in Preoperative Cardiac Risk Stratification