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1. "Little lumps connected your gum. Now, it could beryllium a fibroma oregon a bony growth, but particularly successful decaying teeth, it could beryllium a dental abscess (where the pulp is infected) and could pb to much superior wellness conditions, IV drips, and adjacent decease if not treated."
—Anonymous
2. "I specialize successful obesity and nutrition: If you mislaid much than 30% of your value connected a GLP-1 similar Ozempic oregon Wegovy, you apt request different worldly checked out. I've seen aggregate instances of cancers missed due to the fact that we were blaming the Wegovy, and they had colon cancer."
—Anonymous, 31, Pennsylvania
3. "Don't disregard abrupt terrible itching successful pregnancy; this tin beryllium a sign of liver illness and whitethorn request aboriginal transportation of the babe and imaginable liver transplant eval."
—Anonymous, 31, Pennsylvania
4. "When idiosyncratic says, 'You know, I mislaid imaginativeness successful that oculus a mates of weeks ago. But I had different assignment that day, truthful I waited 2 weeks to travel in.' Or immoderate variation. Happens each the time. If you abruptly suffer imaginativeness successful 1 eye, get to an oculus doc immediately. Don't wait. It's ever little fixable with time."
6. "MD, Interventional Cardiology. STEMIs, for me. People person had thorax symptom for six days, but lone travel successful due to the fact that it inactive hasn't gone away. Whoops, your full anterior partition is dormant due to the fact that you came successful excessively precocious for revascularization. I anticipation you don't caput wearing an outer defibrillator for the adjacent 3 months."
7. "I'm successful podiatry. Ingrown nails are ever a informing sign. I've seen my stock of location bathtub nail procedures spell southbound and hazard the limb."
8. "The magnitude of diabetic feet I spot is staggering. Literally 90% (the remainder is planned follow-ups for operations) of my coiled session is radical who tried to dainty their charcot feet and diabetic ulcers themselves, usually close to the constituent wherever the chances of getting distant without amputation are slim to none."
9. "Like, I've seen patients with vague, intermittent 'dizziness,' that really has been happening for months. It's always: 'OMG. What's incorrect with me? This is truthful strange; amended spell to the ER.' But connected the different hand, immoderate radical aftermath up and their limb doesn't work, and they're like, 'Hmm, possibly I tin thrust this 1 out.'"
"I'm always impressed astatine the radical who deliberation they're having a stroke, are successful fact having a stroke, and inactive hold to spot if they consciousness amended the adjacent time earlier going to the hospital."
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10. "'I've been sweating excessively successful the mediate of the night.' 'You person been coughing?' Answer = Yes. Time to look for tuberculosis. 'You person been coughing?' Answer = No. Time to look for cancer."
11. "An illustration with large patients: 'My babe was moving a batch past week, but helium hasn't moved oregon kicked each this week. I'm a spot concerned.' Me: 'OK, let's instrumentality a look.' (In my head: WHY DIDN'T YOU COME EARLIER!?)."
12. "People with insignificant wound wounds astatine location sometimes effort to glue the laceration shut. This is bad. It turns an ED sojourn with a fewer sutures and an augmentin medicine into an inpatient stay."
13. "Don't disregard pooping yourself portion having backmost pain. Or, being incapable to poop oregon pee properly. I had 3 patients successful the past week with this who wouldn't spell to the ER due to the fact that they didn't privation to wait. One osteoporosis-based sacral fracture and 2 terrible cervical stenosis with myelopathy/radiculopathy."
14. "I'm honestly shocked astatine however galore new-onset diabetes cases with DKA (Diabetic Ketoacidosis) I see, and the parents didn't deliberation it was abnormal that their kid had mislaid 20 pounds successful 2 months. Unintentional value loss is ne'er normal. It's astir ever associated with thing serious, whether it beryllium AIDS, caller diabetes, oregon a malignancy. I consciousness similar this should conscionable beryllium communal sense, but it's seemingly not."
15. "Never disregard oral health issues. Visit immoderate cardiology ward, and respective patients volition person had oregon are waiting for bony extractions. Poor oral wellness tin termination you."
16. "I privation patients would admit that it's not mean to beryllium coughing each the clip and abbreviated of enactment with minimal exertion...I hatred cigarettes."
17. "SOOOOOO overmuch hypertension, arrhythmias, and hyperglycemia. You'll astir apt get a batch of antithetic answers based connected the emblematic diligent colonisation successful the area, but the astir communal things I've seen are hypertensive and hyperglycemic events for patients who are noncompliant with their medications. Their complaints are usually rather vague (headache, dizziness, weakness, abdominal pain), and the carnal introspection is unremarkable. Vitals, BMP, UA, and past aesculapian past marque it beauteous evident beauteous quickly, particularly erstwhile the patient's erstwhile encounters are already successful your system."
"When asked wherefore they haven't refilled their Metformin oregon Norvasc since January, galore patients volition motion their shoulders. They either changed insurance, mislaid their insurance, oregon accidental they conscionable felt good and thought they could spell without it for a while."
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