You have always been told to do a diagnostic paracentesis on admission in cirrhotics with ascites, but why? Can you just get away with clinical judgment to rule out SBP? Is faculty …
By Ian Yarrett, MD
Peer Reviewed
As uncertainty continues to swirl around the future of Obamacare and the stability of the nation’s health insurance markets [1], President Trump took a promising step last week …
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 well established, …
By Jennifer Riggs, MD
Peer Reviewed
The NBA season literally got off on the wrong foot last week as Celtics player Gordon Hayward suffered a broken ankle in the league’s opening game [1]. In …
In 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 …
Listen to CORE IM’s first 5 Pearls segment on Headaches!
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By Christian Torres, MD
Peer Reviewed
It’s another week, which means there’s been another attempt by President Trump to undermine Obamacare. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order that would cut subsidies to insurers providing coverage to …
By Shreya P. Trivedi, MD, Martin Fried, MD and Neil Shapiro, MD
Stay tuned as Clinical Correlations will be partnering with CORE IM to bring our audience podcasts! CORE IM …