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CCHS IM Residency

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Christiana Care Health System Internal Medicine Residency. Training in a large Mid-Atlantic tertiary care academic medical center in the Philadelphia metro area

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Joined September 2009
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Update in Hospital Medicine wp.me/pEqEZ-4a
Notes from Morning Report   A middle aged woman with a history of T-cell lymphoma s/p… wp.me/sEqEZ-251
Notes from Morning Report

Notes from Morning Report

Notes from Morning Report     A middle aged woman with a history of T-cell lymphoma s/p chemotherapy presents with progressive cranial nerve deficits and a normal head CT.  What is Leptomeningeal C…

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Week 11 Clinical Highlights wp.me/pEqEZ-3Y

Week 11 Clinical Highlights

From the Front Line (Wards/ICU/Outpatient)       General Medical:  A gentleman with PMH Hep C presents with palpable purpura             What are current treatment considerations for Cryoglobu…

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Amazing that 94% of young women in Rwanda are immunized against HPV #cugh2013
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Top 5 causes of death in China are non infectious disease #cugh2013
The Grain of Salt: Wash, Rinse and Repeat. wp.me/pEqEZ-3S
Sloth.... wp.me/sEqEZ-sloth

Sloth….

In an ironic twist of fate, Dr. Asher’s final sin is one wholly applicable to and perhaps even perpetuated excessively by none other than myself. For those keeping track, it has been a significant …

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Spanophilia is not the answer to Common Stupidity wp.me/pEqEZ-3u

Spanophilia is not the answer to Common Stupidity

I think I should be up to the fifth sin now, referred to as spanophilia. To note, this word may not come up in many dictionaries, but upon delving into the world of etymology, it seems to be a prot…

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Sometimes 2 Is Better Than 1 wp.me/pEqEZ-3r
Cruel Intentions? wp.me/pEqEZ-3m

Cruel Intentions?

Last time, in the clearest way possible, I discussed Richard Asher’s first sin of medicine, obscurity. Of course it is only appropriate to mention his second sin, cruelty, and then continue on to h…

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The Sin of Obscurity wp.me/pEqEZ-3h

The Sin of Obscurity

During one of my strolls down Wikipedia lane, cursorily perusing a topic that had other interesting links attached, I came across a certain individual, the 20th century British Endocrinologist and …

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Can I speak Chinese? Artificial Intelligence and the Resident wp.me/pEqEZ-3e

Can I speak Chinese? Artificial Intelligence and the Resident

I don’t speak Chinese.  In fact, my Spanish is far better than my Chinese.  This surprises people because I look Chinese (one person even asked me, “Do  you speak Asian?”), but I …

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To Hear or Not to Hear, That is the Question. wp.me/pEqEZ-3a

To Hear or Not to Hear, That is the Question.

There’s a lot to be said concerning doctors making snap decisions about patients.  “They” say it takes about 18 seconds for a doctor to come to a conclusion about a patient’s complaint. But time an…

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"Above the Law" but Below the Radar wp.me/pEqEZ-36

“Above the Law” but Below the Radar

I think there is a common misconception as to what the sporadic pieces of literary genius spewing from my slightly abnormally large head are. I do not write here as a “blogger.” I think…

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The Screen Between wp.me/pEqEZ-2Y

The Screen Between

A short while ago, there was a New York Times article about the distraction of technology in the medical setting. Interestingly enough, I had already thought about writing about technology in medic…

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The Delaware ACP Chapter Meeting is on 2/25/12 at University of DE. Great Speakers about Internal Medicine. #im #acp bit.ly/yhHg7y
A Cog in the Wheel of the Healthcare Machine wp.me/pEqEZ-2T

A Cog in the Wheel of the Healthcare Machine

After a number of months of officially being called a doctor, and having had numerous interactions with many people along the way, most of them in the medical field, I have come to many conclusions…

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Hospital Tours for Residency Applicants wp.me/pEqEZ-2Q

Hospital Tours for Residency Applicants

Now that interview season is upon us, and the potential countless visits to hospitals and programs across the country is about underway, I wanted to reflect on my own experience with the interview …

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The Autonomy of the Intern wp.me/pEqEZ-2N

The Autonomy of the Intern

Following the themes of storytelling and underlying life lessons, I think it behooves us all to look at another quality of medicin that I enjoy. It comes to mind mostly because I was a philosophy m…

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The Internist and the Elephant wp.me/pEqEZ-2H

The Internist and the Elephant

Before I say anything else, I feel it is my moral imperative to welcome you to this blog that serves to absolutely and incontrovertibly represent all things internal medicine at Christiana Care. To…

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