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Physical therapist dies inside hyperbaric oxygen chamber at his Arizona facility The 43-year-old physical therapist was found dead inside the hyperbaric chamber after a fire was reported at his Arizona medical facility.

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Totally unacceptable death - HBO being promoted for profit for conditions which have no scientific evidence for its use. And to subject children to it……

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Advocating for a Master of Digital Health Degree This Viewpoint discusses the need for the establishment of a standardized Master of Digital Health (MDH) degree, modeled after the well-known, time-tested Master of Public Health degree, which has a w...

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The government has so much bureaucracy, it’s hard to initiate change. Good onboarding makes a big difference.

Iatrogenic harm in functional neurological disorder Functional neurological disorder is a common and treatable condition at the interface of neurology and psychiatry. Mcloughlin et al. outline some of the wa

I’m struggling with this condition in a few of my patients currently

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Some of the same concepts as health fraud, quackery, snake oil, device promotion and medical misinformation that has been promoted from probably time began.

Nurse and doctor turnover and patient outcomes in NHS acute trusts in England: retrospective longitudinal study Objective To investigate the association between monthly turnover rates of hospital nurses and senior doctors and patient health outcomes (mortality and unplanned hospital readmissions). Design Retro...

I don’t think it is a surprise to anyone that increased turnover of staff is associated with poorer outcomes for patients. I sent this to my administrators. Staff and physician retention are good for patient care.

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editorial from @bmj.com and paper: Poor staff retention is associated with higher patient mortality. Have said it before & I’ll say it again. If you don’t care for the carers, they cannot care for their patients.
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YouTube video by Headache Journal Advanced clinical reasoning in the diagnosis of spinal cerebrospinal fluid leaks

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Hello! Spontaneous CSF leak?

Could I suggest there may be selection bias? I don’t have the full manuscript to review but it’s “advanced PD” and likely a selection bias for levodopa responsive PD. If the tremor doesn’t respond are they really PD and culled out from being “advanced PD”.

As a “rural” neurologist (Fargo) I can relate to this. Many of my patients come from quite a distance (Minot to Dickinson to South Dakota) and even Winnipeg at times.

Spinal CSF Leaks: The Neuroradiologist Transforming Care Spinal CSF leak care has evolved during the past several years due to pivotal advances in its diagnosis and treatment. To the reader of the American Journal of Neuroradiology ( AJNR ), it has been imp...

www.ajnr.org/content/45/1.... I don’t believe it’s a just a radiological diagnosis. There are many people with abrupt onset incapacitating orthostatic headache without radiologic findings who fit the phenotype.

This is one of the most difficult things to get treated. I used to be able to get my colleagues to do empiric blood patches within days of onset of orthostatic headache, now they want exact localization of the leak which delays early intervention.

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Optimizing Anti–Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein and IgM-Gammopathy Testing for Neuropathy Treatment Evaluation | Neurology Background and ObjectivesPatients with typical anti–myelin-associated glycoprotein (anti-MAG) neuropathy have IgM-gammopathy, mimic distal chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CI...

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Diastolic Dysfunction and the Risk of Stroke and Major Bleeding | Stroke BACKGROUND: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (DD) is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes including atrial fibrillation. Whether DD is independently associated with incident stroke an...

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