Joel Topf, MD: Acute Kidney Injury, Contrast-Associated Nephropathy, and Precious Bodily Fluids
The External Medicine Podcast
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Is the OSCOTation a Good Test for Pneumonia?
Not one single cast that I'm aware of is perfect. It's really lousy. And we use it. We use a mixed group of history and physical and things we learn in medical school, and there's going to be some variation. If someone showed you a study that the stethoscope alone with no other information was lousy at pneumonia, it doesn't mean you wouldn't say okay well that's compelling that I'm going to throw away the stethscope. You'd be like no that's just not how I use that toolI use it as part of my global assessment. As an anthropologist you want me to talk about fractional excretion of sodium and the BUN to
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