#111: Hotcakes - Complementary Medicine in Cancer, Dosing Aspirin by Body Weight, Marijuana & Respiratory Symptoms, Penicillin Allergies and More!

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Neda Frayha (@nedafrayha) of Primary Care RAP (Hippo Education) joins us this month for our thoughts and analysis of some recent (and not so recent) journal articles that interested us this month. Our articles spanned topics that include at cancer survival among patients pursuing treatment with complementary medicine, the effect of body weight on effectiveness of preventive aspirin dosing, strategies to promote physician leadership, respiratory symptoms in those with marijuana use and MRSA risk among patients with penicillin allergies. ACP members can claim free CME-MOC at acponline.com/curbsiders (goes live 0900 EST on podcast release date).

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Credits:

Written by: Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH, Neda Frayha MD, Christopher Chiu MD
Producers: Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH, Christopher Chiu MD
Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, Stuart Brigham MD, Paul Williams MD, and Christopher Chiu MD
Editor: Matthew Watto MD

Time stamps:

00:00 Disclaimer, intro, guest bio
05:05 Do patients using complementary medicine for cancer therapy have worse outcomes?
13:11 Does low dose aspirin work for primary prevention of major adverse cardiac events?
19:16 Do physicians make better leaders?
24:55 Does marijuana cause respiratory symptoms?
30:40 Does penicillin allergy confer increased risk for C Diff and MRSA infection?
38:40 Wrap-up and outro

Tags: aspirin, cardiac risk, mortality, cancer, complementary, alternative, conventional, therapy, marijuana, cannabis, respiratory, symptoms, leader,

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0:00.0	The first time I've got this is for entertainment education and information processing.
0:09.2	And the topics discussed should not be used only by industry, your orbit and industry is more
0:11.6	conditioned, but more than used in the same expressed on this podcast are soloed of those.
0:13.7	It should not be interpreted perfectly, official policy, or position of agency,
0:15.5	the psychrompossil, cash-like morons, and affiliate outreach programs.
0:17.3	Indeed, they're part of any of the fact that they're none.
0:18.8	Pretty much we are responsible for this throughout, but we should always do our homework and let's know when we're done.
0:30.0	Welcome back to the Curbsiders.
0:37.2	Well, hi Matt, how you doing?
0:38.4	I'm doing very well Stewart. This is our fourth or fifth take here, which is,
0:42.1	which is shocking. We've done over 110 podcasts and we can't get the intro right, the first sentence of the
0:48.8	intro right. Literally it's the first sentence of the show.
0:50.6	I've always said we'll have it right by episode number 200.
0:54.6	I'm Dr. Matthew Wato here with multiple co-hosts who will introduce themselves Stewart,
0:59.8	guess that's me. I'm still Stewart Brigham.
1:02.4	And Paul. Yeah, Ben.
1:05.3	The Paul Williams is here with you.
1:07.1	And Chris Chiu, I'm here.
1:09.6	And Chris Chiu as well. Yes, Chris is always with us for the hotcakes episodes.
1:13.9	Chris, why don't you tell them why don't you tell them about what we do on this hotcakes show?
1:19.0	Well, today is another monthly edition of the Curbsiders version of a journal club.
1:23.2	This month, our articles include topics on cancer survival among patients pursuing treatment,
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