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The Curious Clinicians

Dec 23, 2020

Tony appeared as a guest on the Bedside Rounds podcast with Adam Rodman. Tony and Adam delve into race, racism, and the social determinants of health through three historic plagues in the United States — yellow fever in New Orleans, poliomyelitis, and the early days of HIV/AIDS — and explore what lessons we can...


Dec 9, 2020

Learn about why cryptococcal meningitis can cause such severe elevations in intracranial pressure, while often causing only minimal inflammation. 

Don't forget, you can get CE/MOC credit just for listening!

Check out the show notes for this episode and read Avi's tweetorial on this topic.

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Nov 25, 2020

This is the next installment of our series on questions from intern year, with a question that came up on rounds. Hannah examines theories as to why septic pulmonary emboli often present in the periphery and bases of the lungs, while "bland" pulmonary do not. 

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Nov 11, 2020

The Curious Clinicians plug-in to learn about why uremia interferes with platelet function and increases bleeding propensity. 

Don't forget, you can get CE/MOC credit just for listening!

Check out the show notes for this episode here.

And you can also read Tony's tweetorial on this topic


Oct 28, 2020

The Curious Clinicians are back at it, exploring why magnesium so effectively treats the arrythmia torsades de pointes. Hint: it's the same mechanism as magnesium's effects on bronchospasm in severe asthma and seizures in eclampsia!

As always, you can get CE/MOC credits just for listening!

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