The Curious Clinicians – Details, episodes & analysis

This week, Avi follows up Episodes 112 and 114 with the question: How does a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans withstand extreme levels of radiation?

You can read the show notes here!

Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com. Resident Giancarlo Buonomo and medical student Millennium Manna are our producers.

This week, Dr. Mike Todorovic returns as a special guest to tell us about his book with Dr. Matt Barton, The Body A-Z!

Join us as Dr. Mike gives us a sneak preview of the interesting questions and fascinating insights within. You can order the book here, and show notes for this episode are here!

Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com. Resident Giancarlo Buonomo and medical student Millennium Manna are our producers.

This week, Tony shares another "fresh case" physiology question: Why don't we all get spontaneous HIT? 

You can read the show notes here!

Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.5 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.5 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.5 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com. Medical student (soon to be resident) Giancarlo Buonomo is our producer.

The Curious Clinicians explore why chronic laxative use can cause melanosis coli.

Check out the episode's show notes here.

Click here to obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours), or ABIM MOC Part 2 (1.00 hours).

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of nodderly.com

This week, The Curious Clinicians investigate the curious laterality of catamenial pneumothoraces. Why do they almost always arise on the right side of the chest?

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Audio editing by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com. 

The Curious Clinicians head all the way back to June, 2020 and reboot episode 3, exploring why trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole can cause an isolated rise in creatinine. 

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The Curious Clinicians examine why advanced systolic heart failure can induce the Cheyne-Stokes respiratory pattern.

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Don't forget to claim your CME/MOC credits, courtesy of VCU Health!

Audio editing by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com. 

In this episode, The Curious Clinicians examine why the drug Carbidopa-Levodopa has the brand name Sinemet. They also discuss the origin stories of the names of several other commonly prescribed medications.

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Audio edited by Clair Morgan of nodderly.com

*CME/MOC credits are not available for this episode.

On this episode the Curious Clinicians investigate why corticosteroids often cause blood eosinophil counts to drop so quickly and dramatically. 

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Don't forget to pick up your CME/MOC credits, courtesy of VCU Health!

Sound editing by Nodderly. 

The Curious Clinicians, led by Tony, investigate why nephrotic syndrome causes edema.

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Don't forget to pick up your CME/MOC credits, courtesy of VCU Health!

Sound editing by Nodderly.