Hospital and Internal Medicine Podcast

You know all those people on social media wanting mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients? Perhaps, reasonable in theory, if the test wasn’t frequently producing false-positives and false-negatives. Making accurate clinical decisions is always challenging, but particularly with urine drug testing. The consequences of misinterpretation can be awful.

A look at some new data: COPD and Oxygen use - low serum creatinine levels - BMI considerations - the RDW - the age of blood.

Oxalate intake reduction, thiazide diuretics, and tamsulosin are some of the therapies discussed in this lecture. 

Stone analysis, labs, calcium & fluid intake, sodium in the diet, and beverage choices.

A few words about the proximal ureter, I.V. Fluids, colic, and hematuria.