By Asna Tabassum
Peer Reviewed
I distinctly remember sitting in my third-grade classroom, frontal lobe far from fully developed, staring at a worksheet that asked me to do the impossible: of ten passengers on a sinking ship, pick three to escape on a rowboat.
Our classroom of 30 seven-year-olds …
By Austin Cheng, MD
Peer Reviewed
As a resident in internal medicine, hearing the words ‘Loop of Henle’ brings back memories from early medical school of complex diagrams of anatomy, ion transporters …
By Laura McLaughlin
Peer Reviewed
In the United States, a third of people on dialysis for kidney failure are African American, yet this population comprises only 13% of the US population.1 The incidence …
By Maria Smith
Peer Reviewed
The mechanism of sodium retention and edema formation in patients with nephrotic syndrome has long been highly contested in the nephrology world. The traditional teaching was that proteinuria …
By Hannah Friedman
Peer Reviewed
It is a commonly seen scenario on the wards: a patient with a past medical history of heart failure and stage 4 chronic kidney disease presents with progressive …
By Sara Stream, MD
Peer Reviewed
As resident physicians, we are taught to supplement serum potassium to a goal level of 4.0 mEq/L in all hospitalized patients. While the dangers of severe potassium abnormalities are …
By Jessica Morgan
Peer Reviewed
CrossFit and SoulCycle. To many people these words mean nothing. However, ask any twenty-something or college student and they will probably tell you they have participated in …
By Miguel A. Saldivar, MD
Peer ReviewedÂ
When a patient with diabetes comes into a clinic or hospital, it is not uncommon to hear the question, “Is he/she on an angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor (ACEI) or an angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB)?” Most …