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Friday Reflection 31: Senses, Memories, and Medicine

Sensible Medicine

She came to the hospital with three days of weakness, fever, chills, and anorexia. Medical training introduced me to a whole menu of smells -- both diagnostic tools and reminders of times in my career. [i] ii] I once had a patient who actually abandoned her car in our hospital garage.

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Friday Reflection 28: Four of the Things Patients Have Taught Me

Sensible Medicine

We read about diseases and their associated diagnostic tests and treatments. Diagnostic reasoning is supposed to my specialty. Diagnostic tests give you more than just a diagnosis. MM was a 63-year-old woman admitted to the hospital to participate in a phase 1 clinical trial. ” I was a little embarrassed.

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Sensible Medicine

He was a direct admission after an electrophysiologic (EP) study. They found a medication that made it harder to induce VT and sent him up to the medical floor for admission and monitoring with instructions to initiate that medication. During the study the cardiologists used electric impulses to induce VT.

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Understanding DRG Codes and Their Impact on Hospitals

EvidenceCare

In our efforts to empower hospital clinicians to provide better care by having real-time transparency to cost and benchmark utilization data, we’ve learned that one of the core code systems that defines modern hospital resource management – Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) – is misunderstood or even unknown. What is a DRG?

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The Median Hospital Charge In the U.S. for COVID-19 Care Ranges From $34-45K

Health Populi

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. They used two ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes for this research: U07.1,

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Advice for the New Intern 2.0

Sensible Medicine

Deliberate practice during internship is probably even more important today than it was in the days before duty hour restrictions and admission caps. What led him or her to the hospital or caused another doctor to admit the patient? Ask yourself what you are doing to solve the problem that led to (or have crept up since) admission.

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Friday Reflection 31: Senses, Memories, and Medicine

Sensible Medicine

She came to the hospital with three days of weakness, fever, chills, and anorexia. Medical training introduced me to a whole menu of smells -- both diagnostic tools and reminders of times in my career. [i] ii] I once had a patient who actually abandoned her car in our hospital garage.