Questioning Medicine

>10% unintentional weight loss is most likely associated with  gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic, and biliary cancers (relative risks, 3.1–7.4); Leukemia (RR, 4.2) Breast, prostate, and gynecologic ...

1 Feb 20245min

PDE5i are bad if your health if you have cardiovascular disease and a provider that didn't read the paper and only looked at the abstract. Go ahead and write for PDE5i for your patients that need it a...

31 Jan 20249min

Doxy 100mg BID x7days for chlamydia- and consider treating the partner unless you live in West Virginia. https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/chlamydia.htm

30 Jan 20249min

Overall incidence of zoster (defined as the presence of the specific diagnostic code in the medical record, accompanied by a prescription for acyclovir) was lower among vaccine recipients, with vaccin...

29 Jan 20245min

Compared with complication rates in the National Lung Screening Trial, this real-world study had approximately twice the rate of procedural complications (31% vs. 18%) and major complications (i.e., a...

26 Jan 20246min

Ask about and stop aspirin in patients taking it for primary preventionLi DK et al. Trends in upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients on primary prevention aspirin: A nationwide emergency departme...

25 Jan 20245min

At 25yrs the odds of still having your appendix if you were initially managed nonoperatively was 60%.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2808133

24 Jan 20244min

Although an observational trial, it appears lactated ringers is better than normal saline for those individuals with acute pancreatitis to prevent organ failure or local complications. https://journal...

23 Jan 20246min