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, 70’s, 80’s and …
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Clinical Correlations
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, 70’s, 80’s …
Tales of the Bellevue Hospital Internal Medicine House Staff from the ‘60s to Now
October 20, 2017In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Clinical Correlations over the next four weeks we are presenting a wonderful 4 part series of life as a house officer at Bellevue …
Tales of Survival: Fighting Words
August 11, 2017By Rachael Winchester-Hayes, MD
Political friends and foes alike were shocked last month when Senator John McCain’s office announced his diagnosis of glioblastoma after what was thought to be a minor surgery for removal of …
Tales of Survival-The Physician’s Stages of Grief (Based upon the Kübler-Ross Model)
August 4, 2017By Lauren M. Young
Prologue/Narrowing a Diagnosis. A 61 year-old African American male, with a longstanding history of right knee and lower back pain, presented to the Emergency Department for the fourth …
Tales of Survival: Bellevue Night Float Routine
May 5, 2017By Olivia Begasse de Dhaem MD, Palak Patel MD, Shreya Trivedi MD
Peer Reviewed
Hypotension in a patient with a pericardial effusion, sustained tachycardia in a post-MI patient, hypoxia in a patient with metastatic …
Gratitude: Benefits for the Soul, and the Body
February 3, 2017By Nicole Van Groningen, MD
Peer Reviewed
Although the “stress of the holidays” is a phrase used to refer to the multitude of to-do lists and travel obligations associated with the 6-week stretch between …
Glucagon People/Insulin People
November 23, 2016By Michael Tanner, MD
Glucagon: a 29-amino-acid polypeptide secreted by the alpha cells of the pancreas in response to hypoglycemia or starvation.
Insulin: a 51-amino-acid polypeptide secreted by the beta cells of the pancreas in …