Your fave FM prof sharing my thoughts on the primary care shortage from an academic family medicine perspective. Don’t worry I still love being an FM doc- I just think it’s so funny when schools (especially “elite” ones) are surprised that more of their students don’t match into primary care. Speaking as one of 2 people in my class to match into FM… Source: AAFP Benchmark Survey, Rose Horowitch for The Atlantic, Alex Cottrill et al for the Kaiser Family Foundation, Medscape #primarycare #medstud

Full body health screening done in one day. All tests. All specialists. All results. 🏥 Her reaction:

Emergency Care and Emotional Conversations in Hospital

The flu can cause inability to walk with leg pain, and parents need to know how to handle it. The red flag / emergency could be rhabdomyolysis. ➡️ A serious complication of viral illnesses like the flu. ➡️It’s an immune response to the flu that causes muscle breakdown and release of myoglobin into the bloodstream, which can lead to acute kidney damage 🚨Signs of rhabdo: 🚩 A child that REFUSES TO WALK or complains of leg pain a few days after flu symptoms start 🚩 Severe muscle pain, weakness, o