By Emily Zhang
Peer Reviewed
“Banana, sunrise, chair.” These are three words that have left my mouth countless times during my month in the Bellevue Geriatrics Clinic, as the first step of the Mini-Cog, a test …
By Emily Zhang
Peer Reviewed
“Banana, sunrise, chair.” These are three words that have left my mouth countless times during my month in the Bellevue Geriatrics Clinic, as the first step of the Mini-Cog, a test …
By Lily Cao
Peer Reviewed
A quick web search would suggest countless reasons to take fish oil, a supplement that Americans have fallen in love with. In 2012, fish oil, …
By Jamie Oliver
Peer Reviewed
“Hold metformin, start sliding-scale insulin, diabetic diet, subcutaneous heparin.”
Just 10 words. For almost all admitted type 2 diabetics receiving metformin, this 10-word phrase is automatic. I am sure many medical students …
By Lily Cao
Peer Reviewed
A quick web search would suggest countless reasons to take fish oil, a supplement that Americans have fallen in love with. In 2012, fish oil, which is …
By Anna Hirsch
Peer Reviewed
The use of opioid medications for chronic low back pain, or for any chronic non-cancer pain complaint, is still a source of controversy in the …
By Thatcher Heumann, MD
Peer Reviewed
Background
Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) are a class of medications consisting of the thrombin inhibitor, dabigatran (Pradaxa), and the factor Xa inhibitors, rivaroxaban (Xarelto), apixaban (Eliquis), and edoxaban (Savaysa). …
By Gerardo Velez
Peer Reviewed
Mr. H is a 71-year-old patient with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) who came in for his routine follow-up. He recently saw the podiatrist for some foot pain and is …
By Jamie Oliver
Peer Reviewed
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer death in the US.[1]Almost all CRC develops from precancerous polyps, and with appropriate colonoscopy screening most polyps can be detected …