#185 Hotcakes: Updates on CAP, Asthma & Red Meat!

“Guidelines” galore! From Community-Acquired Pneumonia to asthma to...red meat? While you may be listening to this around Thanksgiving, we actually recorded on October 30th‒the best and spookiest time of the year. To really set the mood I wanted to include some terrible skeleton puns, but the ones I found weren’t humerus. What we do have for you are some tasty knowledge treats, courtesy of our ghosts‒oops, I mean our HOSTS‒Chris, Matt, Stuart and Paul. Join us as we review the most terrifyingly relevant research findings and creepiest clinical pearls!

Today also marks the debut of our newest Hotcakes team member, the frighteningly talented Dr. Rahul Ganatra. Rahul will now be our resident statistician/study design expert, and will use his research skulls‒no wait, SKILLS‒to provide even more insight into the practice-changing findings we love to highlight for you.  

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Credits 

• Written and Produced by: Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH, Christopher Chiu MD
• Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, Stuart Brigham MD, Paul Williams MD, and Christopher Chiu MD
• Statistics Expert: Rahul Ganatra MD
• Editors: Christopher Chiu MD (audio/text), Emi Okamoto MD (text)
• Cover-Art: Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH
• Music: Stuart Brigham MD

Time stamps

• 00:00 Introduction/Disclaimer
• 03:18 Getting to know Dr. Rahul Gantra
• 05:35 Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines
• 15:13 Sarah explains Hotcakes ratings
• 16:45 A new Asthma Strategy
• 17:26 Chris forgets what LABA stands for
• 27:37 Stuart makes a joke
• 29:00 A lot of meat talk
• 37:22 Rahul’s Napkin Calculations
• 51:40 Honorable Mentions
• 52:42 Take-away Points & Outtro

Meet Rahul:

Rahul Ganatra is a Medical Attending and Director of Continuing Medical Education for the Medical Service at the VA Boston Healthcare System.  He fell in love with clinical epidemiology and public health while taking night classes for his MPH during medical school. and we