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Robert Centor MD MACP 🇮🇱 Profile picture
@medrants
Jun 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ #UncleBob believes your job is to help them grow. Make clear your expectations for rounds. If they are not presenting well, suggest improvements. Sometimes you need to restate the HPI as an example - the same goes for daily rounds - teach them how to meet your expectations
2/ Almost all interns will improve quickly if you are explicit and immediate in feedback. BTW - tell them you are giving them feedback on how to improve. When they do improve - now you can give them positive feedback on their progress.
3/ Ask them each day what they learned (1 or 2 things) and encourage them to spend #5goodminutes reading to own that new knowledge. Learn their strengths and what they need to work on. Help them grow every day. Let them know that July is the biggest growth month of GME.
4/ Congratulations on the honor of being a July attending. Whenever an intern or resident has a day off, ask them the next day what they did for fun on their off day. Let them know what you do for fun. Encourage balance.
I hope these meanderings are helpful. You will succeed

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Robert Centor MD MACP 🇮🇱 Profile picture
Sep 15, 2022
1/ #UncleBob - on giving formative feedback on rounds. First, make it clear in your expectations discussion (day 1) that you will critique many things and label them as feedback. #MedEd @CPSolvers @uabimres
2/ Especially with new presentations, stop after the HPI and both praise the story and provide suggestions on making the presentation better. Emphasize the role of storytelling as separate from having taken a good history.
3/ Understand that when you ask questions - some are hard and some are easy. When a learner answers a hard question well - praise them and note that you are giving positive feedback.
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Apr 19, 2022
1/Time for a #UncleBob screed. The question Andrew raises is a very interesting one. First I must provide my understanding of the purpose of teaching ward attending physicians.
I divide this into providing excellent patient care & helping learners grow.
2/ Providing high quality care is a given. Excellent ward attendings evolve with clinical practice (consider the 10,000 hour "rule"). But I would argue that both outpatient clinical practice and inpatient practice are beneficial.
3/ And I believe I learn more in a month of ward attending than if I did a month of solo patient care. Patient care requires attention to detail, diagnostic excellence, management efficiency and proper use of tests and consultants.
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Mar 7, 2022
1/ #UncleBob recently presented a patient who had a hyperkalemia, normal gap acidosis (type 4 RTA) to @DxRxEdu & @rabihmgeha

But why does hyperkalemia cause a normal gap acidosis?

@tony_breu
2/ Some basic physiology - we metabolize around 1 mEq of H+ daily from our diet. We buffer that acid using titratable (phosphate) and non-titratable (NH4+) acids.
The phosphate pathway does not vary much, but our kidneys can normally control the ammonium pathway
3/ Where does the ammonia come from? Glutamine -> glutamate under the enzyme glutaminase produces NH3

Here is the interesting part. Increased K inhibits this enzyme, thus we produce insufficient NH3 to buffer our dietary intake.
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Mar 7, 2022
#UncleBob posted this link yesterday. Here are a few thoughts on the article. “I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”

— Richard Feynman

Reminds me of M1&2
"The difference between reasoning by first principles and reasoning by analogy is like the difference between being a chef and being a cook. If the cook lost the recipe, he’d be screwed."

This is so relevant to those who grow and those who stagnate.
"Some of us are naturally skeptical of what we’re told. Maybe it doesn’t match up to our experiences. Maybe it’s something that used to be true but isn’t true anymore. And maybe we just think very differently about something." - The best diagnosticians always question previous dx
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Feb 16, 2022
1/ Here is the story - hopefully instructive. Patient (ESRD w/ dialysis) admitted 3 weeks previously for dyspnea. Portable CXR shows small pleural effusion & some haziness - pneumonia or atelectasis. No fever, no increased WBC, no productive cough. Discussed now w/ radiology
2/ Radiologist teaches our team - pneumonia is a CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS - cannot make the diagnosis by CXR/CT scan.

Patient discharged - readmitted for more dyspnea - now with moderate pericardial effusion and large left pleural effusion. Receive furosemide & then thoracentesis
3/
 fluid LDH - 136
fluid TP. - 3.8
serum LDH - 212
serum TP - 5.6

Fluid very clear - pH 7.43 - no WBCs

Light's criteria - exudative effusion

All appropriate pleural fluid studies negative
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Jan 30, 2022
1/ #UncleBob hopes those on the fence about vaccines will understand this
Weekly COVID-19 death rate via CDC:

Unvaccinated: 9.7 deaths per 100k
Fully vaccinated: 0.7 deaths per 100k
Boosted: 0.1 deaths per 100k
2/ Yes you can get omicron even if you are boosted

BUT

You are less likely to get infected
If you get infected you are much less likely to need hospitalization
If you need hospitalization, you are much less likely to need ICU care, and MUCH less likely to die
3/ Would you turn down medical care if you got sick?

I assume no - almost everyone comes to the hospital and ask for everything

Then why would you not accept a free prevention tool?
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