Chetan Wasekar, MD
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Quiz
Quiz : What’s the antidote ?
Overdoses - Intentional, accidental including accidentally in the hospital - are common
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Clinicals
Treat kidney stone pain & help removal non-surgically
A mnemonic for healthcare professionals to recall steps to treat renal colic and improve changes for natural passage of kidney…
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Tips
Which Skin Tags predict Diabetes, High BP & High Cholesterol ?
Besides being a cosmetic nuisance, they have a clinical significance....
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Tips
Iron Pills : Taking Every other day better than Daily, BID or TID dosing !
The interesting paradox of Iron pills & Iron absorption...
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Tips
Remember hangover control in early & pre alcohol-withdrawal patients
The 'CIWA' for hangover control
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Tips
Help constipated patients CRAP without pills
In modern medicine it's reflexive for a provider to prescribe meds for constipation, while natural interventions are often omitted...
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Mnemonics
Causes of Bowel Obstruction : A visceral mnemonic
Have you seen Dr. Lecter's terrible evisceration scene from the Hannibal movie ?
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Mnemonics
Fixing A-Fib (or A-Flutter) with RVR using ABCDEF
ABCDEF gives me the exact sequence I use to treat A-Fib / A-Flutter with RVR
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Tips
Access pay-to-read medical journal articles for free 😁
Psst....want to feel like a hacker ?
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Basics
Unexplained new leukocytosis can be a C.Diff pre-warning
A curious thing I noticed over my hospitalist years is leukocytosis BEFORE C.Diff symptoms
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Quiz
A nerdy quiz of useless medical terms
This post is useless, utterly so, since these terms are never or hardly used in modern English since they all…
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Mnemonics
Easy Mnemonic for ACE-Inhibitor Side-effects
The first oral ACE Inhibitor was Captopril, also makes a splendid mnemonic
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Basics
The four options to treat any infection
There are only 4 things you can usually do to treat most infections
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Basics
Tylenol safe to use in Liver Cirrhosis, but …
Acetaminophen is no saint...but the myth of completely avoiding it in all liver disease needs to die
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Quiz
Quiz: Know your medical spellings ?
Are these the correct spellings ? Answer Yes or No :-)
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Tips
Can a tongue bite diagnose seizures ? Know where to look…
They could be diagnostic of seizures, but easy to miss !
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Basics
How eating meat skews serum creatinine in patients…
Something to be aware of to avoid misinterpreting labs !
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Tips
Preventing patients from passing out in showers
The prospect of passing out & waking up butt naked in a shower is terrifying, remember the risk in recent…
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