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Don't Just Do Something
When I decided to become a doctor, I made a pledge. And the pledge was that I would put my patient's interest in front of my own interest. — Jerome Hoffman, MD A teenage girl arrives in the ER on a backboard after a minor car crash with some neck pain, so she's put in a rigid collar by the paramedics. In the ER, however, she meets all five NEXUS low-risk criteria, which says she doesn't need imaging. Then her father arrives: loud, angry, and quick to mention he's a lawyer. He
Graham Walker, MD
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From ASCVD Pooled Cohort Equations to PREVENT: Rethinking Cardiovascular Risk
For more than a decade, the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) pooled cohort equations (PCEs) have been the default for estimating a patient's cardiovascular risk. Now a new model is replacing them, and it doesn't just update the math. It changes predictive outcomes and implications for millions of patients. That shift is the subject of the latest episode of MDAware: Upgrading Clinical Judgment. Host Dr. Shazia Siddique sits down with Dr. Sadiya Khan and Dr. Donal
MDCalc Team
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