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In this simulated study, researchers estimated that, for an average panel of 2,500 patients, a primary care clinician would require 26.7 hours a day to provide preventive, chronic, and acute care with documentation/inbox management.

A clinical picture of the spontaneous pneumothorax, which is considered spontaneous if there is no apparent precipitating cause and can be easily missed on a chest radiograph unless there is a strong index of clinical suspicion. This article discusses risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment for the condition.

‘Bikini medicine’ (see the Boston Globe article) is an outdated, sexist idea that men and women should be cared for similarly — dubbed as such due to the mistaken belief that women’s health only differs in the parts of women that bikinis cover. A ridiculous notion, considering that cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases affect women differently than men. Last time we checked, the bikini doesn’t cover any of them.

Dr. Lucinda A. Harris, an associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Scottsdale, AZ, offers her evidence-based approach to diagnosing and treating these five rare GI diseases: Non-celiac gluten sensitivity Eosinophilic esophagitis Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Mast cell activation syndrome

Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria showed up in four patients in Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas in 2021, despite the bacterium typically associated with travel to tropical and subtropical areas like Thailand and Malaysia. The case was cracked when researchers found an essential oil spray that contained B. pseudomallei in the home of a 4-year-old boy who died from complications of the melioidosis outbreak.

The 28-year-old Canadian pop star recently put the condition into the limelight after showing his face to his millions of Instagram followers. Ramsay Hunt Syndrome is caused by the varicella-zoster virus – the virus that causes chickenpox – but here’s more on the condition that plagues 5 in 100,000 people every year.