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And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 72. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

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

All right, and I'm excited to bring today's episode, which is titled Drop It Like It's Hot,

Praisesin, and the 2017 VA Department of Defense PTSD Guidelines.

Dr. Schumann, did I hear you say Phrasicen or Prazacin?

I could say both, depending upon what you prefer.

This is an interesting one.

There's a lot of different ways to say it, but one good drug.

Kind of tomato tomato or tomato or tomato or potato potato.

Yeah, it works too.

So it sounds like it's hot because there are new guidelines and it seems like we're dropping something, aka Paises son. Yeah, so what we want to do here is really go through.

There have been some surprising changes that came out right at the end of June, beginning of July of 2017.

And so starting a new year, kind of a new change is when to go through there and talk about what they did with that medication,

maybe some of the other ones, and then go through what that means moving forward for clinical practice and the management of PTSD.

So Dr. Sherman, I'm going to hold my hand up and say I almost never see any PTSD patients

in my neck of the hoods because many times they're intubated on receiving sedatives and things

like that. So I'm actually really excited to hear about kind of general

management of PTSD. So for the listeners who aren't in a VA psych type clinic, I think that they

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