Mar 26, 2019
As providers, the safety of our patients is paramount. In recent years, increased attention has been given to diagnostic error in medicine, specifically those that arise through error in cognitive perception, failed heuristics and biases. In today’s episode, we are talking with Joe Grubenhoff, MD about error in...
Mar 19, 2019
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that spreads easily through the air or on infected surfaces; According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, of every 1,000 people who get measles, 1 to 2 will die. And the numbers are even higher in developing countries where the case fatality rate is 4-10%. As...
Mar 12, 2019
In today's episode we dive in to the topic of toxicity and the most common overdoses in pediatric medicine. Our guest is Sam Wang, MD, returning from earlier this season when we covered the topic of Marijuana as Medicine (S2:E14).
Dr. Wang is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician and Medical Toxicologist at...
Mar 5, 2019
HPV vaccine rates remain low with only about 16% of U.S. adolescents being fully vaccinated by the time they turn 13 according to the CDC. With about 34,000 cases of HPV-induced cancers annually, we as providers have an opportunity to encourage more parents to vaccinate their children.
In this episode we talk with...