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Upper respiratory infection Left untreated and you will have to call a code and get the cart @atlas change to a pulmonologist. What are some signs and symptoms of a URI?

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Are you using Mounjaro (tirzepatide) for diabetes management? I wanted to share a recent experience that might be helpful for those considering or currently using Mounjaro Mounjaro is a medication designed to help control blood sugar levels in adults with type 2 diabetes. While it's often highlighted for its weight loss benefits, it's crucial to remember that it's primarily a diabetes treatment. My wife, who isn't overweight (around 130 pounds or 55 kg), uses it specifically for her diabetes. Recently, she experienced significant stomach pain, which led us to the emergency room. Given her family history of gallbladder issues, we were particularly cautious. After thorough examinations, the doctors determined that it was a side effect of Mounjaro. Common gastrointestinal side effects of Mounjaro include: Nausea Diarrhea Decreased appetite Constipation Abdominal pain Heartburn These side effects are usually temporary and may subside as your body adjusts to the medication. Continued 👇

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Intriguing paper making the rounds this morning by Peter Visscher et al. in Nature about the future of Polygenic Gene Editing for reducing disease risk in embryos for complex diseases! Discusses about how a few variants dramatically decrease diseases like diabetes or schizophrenia. It's speculative but fascinating. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08300-4

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Something doesn't sit right with CHAI. Cant figure out yet, but the members plus use of 'responsible AI in health' can never bode well for patients and physicians. EHRs demonstrated that quite well. https://chai.org/

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Information for People in Contact with Livestock: How to Prevent and Protect Yourself from Q FEVER Q fever is an infection transmitted from animals to humans, caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii. Infected animals shed the microorganism through urine, feces, milk, and especially through products related to birth. Humans become infected primarily by inhaling contaminated particles.

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Feels like GLP-1 rush day today as patients try to get their last refill before insurance changes tomorrow. Many insurance cos are dropping GLP-1 coverage for 2025 or making the requirements stricter

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Feedback loops with wearable and patient biomarkers utilizing LLMs is something every physician should be thinking about. It’s a paradigm shift in how we are trained to treat temporally. Real time medical data, trials, guidelines. We will have to go beyond evidence based medicine and data-powered medicine.

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Constipation is something that is not spoken of enough in leading to long term consequences both mild (hemorrhoids) and severe (diverticulitis, colectomy)

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Rereading How Doctors Think by Montogomery this morning and found it relevant to the discourse on the value of physicians in the age of AI. Interpretation of what we see as physicians, be it through an EKG, CXR and eventually the assessment of the LLM is built on and for the patient in front of us. Easy to forget sometimes.

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The multiple testing problem in GWAS perfectly illustrates why signal-to-noise is so challenging in personalized medicine: we're searching for maybe a few dozen causal genetic variants while running millions of statistical tests, each with a 5% false positive rate. With 1M variants, that's 50,000 "significant" results by chance alone - not even counting true biological effects.

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Lol 😂 goddam this was the worst erection ever.. I say this every 4 🐸 yrs

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Currently working through some specialization in precision medicine, and one of the stark realization is that most physicians didn’t even learn 95% of the genetics necessary to practice in the field while in med school or residency. Most of what we know today has only been developed the past 5 years. Epigenetic clocks are a good example. Will work on bringing together resources.

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Fun fact: if a doctor leaves a patient paper in their own hospital workroom, they have violated HIPAA and can be charged $50k per page. And get a scarlet letter on their medical license profile for the world to see. Yet 17M full electronic records getting leaked see no consequence or uproar. https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2024/12/12/cyber-criminals-claim-they-hacked-17-million-patient-records-at-pih-health-hospitals/

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It may be useful for someone

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