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, …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
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 …
PrimeCuts – This Week in the Journals
November 6, 2017
By Nicole Massucci, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week, President Trump embarks on a two-week trip visiting 5 Asian countries in hopes of rallying efforts to increase pressure on North Korea (1). The …
Tales of the Bellevue Hospital Internal Medicine House Staff from the ‘60s to Now-Part 2 The 1970’s
November 3, 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, …
CORE IM podcast: Mind The Gap on Admission Paracentesis
November 1, 2017
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? …
PrimeCuts – This Week in the Journals
October 30, 2017
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 …
Is Potassium Supplementation Beneficial in Hospitalized Patients?
October 25, 2017
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 …
PrimeCuts – This Week in the Journals
October 23, 2017
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 …