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In the Wake of an Emergency, Doctors Will Be There

Lately it seems like there has been an endless stream of bad news, from natural disasters to horrific displays of human violence against others humans. However, during times of extreme crises, boundaries and divisions between people…

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Mental illness: Cotard’s Delusion or walking corpse syndrome

Cotard’s Delusion is an obscure mental illness where the sufferers deny the existence of a body part, a portion of their body, or their entire existence. This syndrome is often referred to as “walking corpse…

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Plastic Surgery: Quality of Life and Vanity

While surgical reconstruction to restore proper form and function to the body is widely accepted in the medical community, some physicians struggle to find empathy for patients undergoing elective plastic surgery procedures. Many physicians equated…

Patient Cases

Patient Case: Have You Ever Seen Blue Legs Before?

Share by an Italian doctor specializing in dermatology, allergy & immunology, and rheumatology A 55-year-old patient with heptic cirrhosis with ascites related to HCV comes to the clinic for a year. His legs present a…

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Have You Ever Had a Near-Death Experience?

Near-death experiences and out-of body experiences, often associated with each other, are phenomena that are often considered enigmatic and even mystifying. However, a new study was recently published claiming that abnormalities in the inner ear…

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Lack of Awareness Around Telehealth

According to a recent Software Advice survey, patients are very interested in telemedicine and use it as a metric to select their physicians. Software Advice asked 400 patients about their interest in video conferencing as…

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Finding Medical Devices Where They Shouldn’t Be…

A family in Canada will have to undergo 6 months of medical tests after they recently found an intravenous catheter in a tub of ice cream. In light of this story, we asked Sermo physicians,…

Patient Cases

Patient Case: Unexplained Pain in the Left Ear

Shared by a German Otolaryngologist A 66-year-old male patient presented with a history of ear pain on the left side in the last couple of days, but he didn’t have a fever or ear discharge.…

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Sermo discussions – discussing mental health with patients

May is Mental Health Month, which is dedicated to “spreading the word that mental health is something everyone should care about.” Mental health issues are far more prevalent than most people realize – 1 in…

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Doctors discuss the golden age of medicine and practices

~ By a Pediatrician in Australia Societal attitudes, scientific progress and an increased understanding of how the human body works in lay people, have transformed the way Medicine has been practiced over the years. Each…

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Doctors & Simple Tasks

~ By a Gastroenterologist in the UK There is a belief that smart people lack common sense, and suggestions regarding why: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11232300/Why-do-geniuses-lack-common-sense.html Whilst never claiming to be a genius, it has been suggested to me by exes…

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PCSK9 Inhibitors: One Big Hit and A Big Miss at ACC in DC

~ By Dr. Anthony Pearson As a practicing cardiologist I’ve been struggling with how to utilize the two available PCSK9 inhibitors (Amgen’s Repatha (evolocumab) and Sanofi’s Praluent (alirocumab) in my clinical practice. I would love to use…

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