Please enjoy this post from the archives dated February 3, 2012
By Melissa Mroz, MD and Rachel Bond, MD
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The electrocardiogram (EKG) is a test not only interpreted by cardiologists.
In fact, it is usually early in the year that the new medical …
By Ian Henderson, MD
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This past Tuesday The 2015 NCAA College Basketball tournament began. The yearly event, always filled with bracket busting upsets and edge-of-your-seat buzzer beaters, normally stars players and …
By Shilpa Mukunda, MD
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On my first day on inpatient medicine at the VA Hospital, Mr. P came in with an oozing foot ulcer. Mr. P, a 60-year-old man with a 30 …
By Anjali Mone, MD
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As the Northeast recovers from non-stop snowstorms and the frozen East River thaws, daylight savings time may finally mark the end of winter, except in Arizona and Hawaii who will not be “springing forward”. Arizona …
By Akansha Chhabra, MD
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Blue and black or white and gold? This seems to be the most popular question across social media platforms over the last …
By Dana Zalkin
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A code is called on the overhead speaker and the on-call teams rush to the scene to see what awaits them. EKG leads are being placed, medications are being …
By Steven R. Liu, MD
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“And the award goes to…” – for those of you who watched the Academy Awards this week, you will have been an admirer of Neil Patrick …
By Rachel Kaplan Hoffmann, M.D., M.S.Ed., and Keith Hoffmann, J.D.
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On December 6, 2013, a two-year-old boy living in southeastern Guinea became the first victim of the latest …