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Db's Medical Rants. Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education. Tips for IM Attendings – Chapter 16 – Why I like table rounds before bedside rounds. Category : Medical Rants. Any teaching style should develop from clearly defined goals. My teaching style directly follows from these principles:. We want each learner to understand each patient, their diagnoses and treatments. We want to challenge each learner to grow. We never want to embarrass a learner in front of a patient.
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Db's Medical Rants. Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education. Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple. You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Clinical Cases and Images. Musings of a Dinosaur.
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Db's Medical Rants. Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education. The answer – hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis and hypocalcemia. Category : Acid-Base and Lytes. To recap the story:. 70 year old man with recent admission for pneumonia. Discharge on clindamycin and levofloxacin. Now with progressive weakness, fatigue, tingling and confusion. What happened in the past 3 weeks? What diagnostic tests do you want, and what questions do you want to ask? Category : Acid-Base and Lytes.
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Db's Medical Rants. Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education. My current top 5 in music, movies and TV series (revised 5/22/13). Random Access Memories – Daft Punk. Trouble will find me – The National. Ghost on Ghost – Iron and Wine. Rhythm Sessions – Lee Ritenour. Her Favorite Song – Mayer Hawthorne. A Delicate Truth – John le Carre. The Daylight War – Peter Brett. Standing in another man’s Grave – Ian Rankin. Trapped – Kevin Hearne. Talking Heads, Life During Wartime.
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Veterinarians Behaving Badly: November 2014
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A sarcastic veterinary blog dedicated to all of the money grubbing vets out there who are fed up with the insanity of the American public. Thursday, November 20, 2014. What Does It Smell Like? Note to self.DON'T EVER ASK A CLIENT WHAT IT SMELLS LIKE. Client was in for an exam today and we got to talking about Anal Sacs and Glands and she remarked that the dog had an odor about him.and I foolishly asked. What does it smell like? Sometimes. you just can't make this stuff up. Sunday, November 16, 2014.
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Veterinarians Behaving Badly: Herky won't let me be
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A sarcastic veterinary blog dedicated to all of the money grubbing vets out there who are fed up with the insanity of the American public. Saturday, May 2, 2015. Herky won't let me be. Jaws was lying on the counter, next to Karen, our receptionist and the best friend of Jaws. The back story. Jaws came to us as an emaciated, flea infested, filthy orange and white striped eight week old kitten. She was hungry, and she demonstrated that with her rather prodigious appetite. She attacked food....Oh, well that...
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Veterinarians Behaving Badly: February 2015
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A sarcastic veterinary blog dedicated to all of the money grubbing vets out there who are fed up with the insanity of the American public. Wednesday, February 18, 2015. A day too late. We always sedate pets heavily before the final injection of euthanasia solution, so the pet is feeling no pain and is unaware of what's happening. I tell the owners their pet is off running and playing and enjoying their new life over the rainbow bridge. Http:/ www.lapoflove.com/Pet Quality of Life Scale.pdf. A day too late.
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Veterinarians Behaving Badly: August 2014
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A sarcastic veterinary blog dedicated to all of the money grubbing vets out there who are fed up with the insanity of the American public. Thursday, August 28, 2014. Chapters We'd Like to See in the Textbooks. A few of us at the VBB roundtable were wondering why we never see the following chapters in any of our veterinary textbooks:. Chapter 1: How to Accept That You Chose to Become an Emotional Sponge for the Public Without Killing Yourself. Chapter 8: Surgery: The Ultimate Hack and Slash Experience.
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Db's Medical Rants. Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education. If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. There are no facts, only interpretations. The takeaway is the essential value of human experience — we can never have too many Capt. Sullenbergers, in aviation or medicine. Where medicine and aviation meet. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. The most s...
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