The Curious Clinicians

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76 - Radical Regeneration Sep 06, 2023

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On this episode, The Curious Clinicians explore the liver's incredible ability to regenerate after injury or resection.

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Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com.

This episode was sponsored by Brooklinen! Use promo code "CURIOUS" for $20 off your first order + free shipping.

[Archive] The Last Breath Aug 24, 2023

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This week, The Curious Clinicians are bringing back an episode from the archive that was originally posted in December, 2021.

Tony joined Dr. Adam Rodman as a guest on the Bedside Rounds podcast. We were thrilled to share that episode here.

How can we medically tell whether or not someone is alive or dead? The answer is more complicated than you'd think. This episode was a live podcast Adam and Tony gave at the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Physicians annual meeting on October 16, 2021. They track the evolution and controversies of the death exam, from a trans-Atlantic scandal surrounding a possible vivisection, a 19th century "X-prize" to determine a technology that could diagnose death, the important distinction between "permanent" and irreversible, and the mysterious Lazarus phenomenon.

Link to episode page: http://bedside-rounds.org/episode-65-the-last-breath/

75 - Feeling the Burn Aug 09, 2023

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On this episode, The Curious Clinicians investigate why alcohol both causes a burning sensation when you first swallow it (hint: the mechanism has something to do with chili peppers) and why you get a general sense of total body warmth within the next few minutes.

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Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com.

This episode was sponsored by Brooklinen! Use promo code "CURIOUS" for $20 off your first order + free shipping.

74 - DIFFerent Babies Jul 26, 2023

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On this episode, The Curious Clinicians examine an intriguing question - why are babies protected from infection and colitis by C. Diff? We'll touch on factors relating to immunology, microbiology and human development.

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Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com.

73 - Random Acts of Medicine with Dr. Christopher Worsham Jul 13, 2023

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On this episode, The Curious Clinicians are joined by Dr Christopher Worsham, co-author of a fascinating and insightful new book, Random Acts of Medicine, which explores the use of natural experiments to better understand healthcare and is now out in hardcover!

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com.

[Archive] 16 - The Eyes Have It (Part I) Jun 29, 2023

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This week, we reach back into the archive for an episode from 2021 (the first in a two-part series related to the eyes) where Tony, Hannah, and Avi explored why Wilson disease can present with Kayser-Fleischer corneal rings.

Remember to pick up CME/MOC credit just for listening to the episode!

Check out the show notes for this episode and read Avi's tweetorial on this topic.

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com

72 - Bringing Up Beethoven Jun 13, 2023

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On this episode, The Curious Clinicians dive into musical history, examining what might have caused German composer Ludwig van Beethoven's infamous deafness.

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Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com.

71 - Slow to Resolve Jun 01, 2023

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In this episode, The Curious Clinicians learn about why pneumonia takes weeks to resolve on chest x-ray, whereas symptoms generally resolve much sooner.

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Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com.

[Archive] - Bendopnea May 18, 2023

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This episode originally aired April, 2021, where The Curious Clinicians examined why some patients feel short of breath specifically when bending over, aka "bendopnea".

You can read the show notes for this episode on our website.

Don't forget to pick up CME/MOC credits, courtesy of VCU Health.

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.

70 - Blood Meal May 04, 2023

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In this episode, The Curious Clinicians examine why upper gastrointestinal bleeding raises BUN. The answer involves experiments where participants were asked to drink blood (!) and the 700 sextillion (7 x 1023) amino acids that comprise the hemoglobin content in a liter of blood.

Read the show notes here.

Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com.

This episode was sponsored by Green Chef!

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