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Welcome to Helix Talk, Episode 10. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

And I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr. Patel.

And today we're talking about kind of a fun topic, our clinical pet peeves. These are things that kind of drive us crazy and we really want to educate the audience to help avoid some of the mistakes that we commonly see in clinical practice. So I'll go ahead and get

started with a few of my clinical pet peeves. The first is the idea of a sulfa allergy

and whether that sulfa allergy cross reacts with other things that have sulfonamide groups or moieties

on them. It's a really good topic because I get this question in the clinic all the time.

And I've heard at least one story of a new graduate pharmacist who started working at

CVS or Walgreens and had this drug alert pop up that said that this patient was filling LASICs

or hydrochlorithiazide. They had a sulfa allergy listed in their profile, whether or not that was

appropriate because, you know, loop diuretics and thiaside-like diuretics do have sulfonamide moieties on them,

and theoretically that could, you know, cause a problem. So the new pharmacist calls up the physician

who wrote the Lasix or the thiazide prescription and gets

chewed out by the physician for the ridiculousness of his question.

And it really is ridiculous.

And a lot of the drug interaction tools that are built in into medical records when physicians

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