Monthly Archives: February 2016
How to write medication recommendations is a question I frequently address with students. While understanding that there are various formats, processes, and different ideas on this topic, I believe that there is quite a bit of art in medication recommendation writing. Here’s 5 tips that can help you write better recommendations! Don’t insult. This […]
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A 69 year old male has an extensive medical history including schizophrenia, depression, Parkinson’s disorder, and hypertension. He has historically been fairly adherent to his medication regimen, but recently decided that he did not want to take his aripiprazole (Abilify). He had been tried on various antipsychotics for years. Within weeks of stopping his aripiprazole […]
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I’m very appreciative of a great guest post that begs the question: Should codeine be used in kids? If you would like to contribute a guest case, please feel free to email me at mededucation101@gmail.com – The case: Patient ES is a 9 year old male who presents to the clinic with his mother complaining […]
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It’s no secret that I work with a lot of geriatric patients. These things have been on my mind lately about the management of UTI’s, so just wanted to share them. With rare exception, asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) should not be treated. ASB is defined as “isolation of a specified quantitative count of bacteria in an […]
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A 77 year old male is receiving the following medications: aspirin omeprazole metronidazole thiamine ibuprofen tramadol lamotrigine So, based on this limited information, what would I investigate? Without diagnosis listed, there are a few things that I’m going to investigate based on previous experience. What does thiamine possibly warn us about metronidazole? The first thing […]
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