Should a cirrhotic’s INR and platelets deter you from doing a paracentesis? Do you need to transfuse prior to a paracentesis? Do generalist have worse procedure complications than specialists? Go deeper …
Author: Neil.Shapiro@nyulangone.org
Clinical Correlations
Mystery Quiz-The Answer
November 21, 2017Before you read the answer, please review the original Mystery Quiz posted 11/9/17
Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The answer to the Mystery Quiz is lung carcinoma. The location of the lesion is the superior segment of the right lower lobe which is dependent when the patient is supine. This location often …
PrimeCuts – This Week in the Journals
November 20, 2017
By Alexander Jordan, MD
Peer Reviewed
Love has won another hard-fought victory! In Australia, nearly 13 million people took part in a national survey held on marriage equality, with …
Tales of the Bellevue Hospital Internal Medicine House Staff from the ‘60s to Now
November 17, 2017
In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Clinical Correlations we are presenting a wonderful 4 part series of life as a house officer at Bellevue Hospital in the 60’s, …
Core IM podcast: 5 Pearls on Iron Deficiency Anemia
November 15, 2017
Listen to 5Â Pearls segment of Iron Deficiency Anemia! By Dr. Cary Blum MD, Marty Fried MD and Shreya P. Trivedi MD; Illustration by Mike Natter MD
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Primecuts – This Week in the Journals
November 13, 2017
By Dixon Yang, MD
Peer Reviewed
“It’s MAGA Day. And we’ll celebrate it like Bastille Day,†states Steve Bannon, former advisor to President Trump in an interview with the …
Tales of the Bellevue Hospital Internal Medicine House Staff from the ‘60s to Now
November 10, 2017In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Clinical Correlations we are presenting a wonderful 4 part series of life as a house officer at Bellevue Hospital in the 60’s, …
Mystery Quiz
November 9, 2017Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The patient is a 72 year old man who presented with an incidentally noted right mid-lung density on a chest radiograph. The patient was asymptomatic at the time and was begun on empiric treatment with moxifloxacin, then a course of amoxicillin-clavulanate for a presumed pneumonia …