Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery

from leaders in the field. Welcome to Behind the Knife Medical Student and Intern Survival Guide.

In this podcast series we focus on high yield topics relevant to medical students and

surgical interns.

My name is Patrick Georgeov and I'm Vahue-Nacolian'm we are your host.

Today's episode is another one geared towards incoming interns.

That's right.

Today's episode is part two of common and critical floor issues.

From the mundane to the hardcore emergencies, we're going to cover Dahl.

All right, we hope we found the last episode useful.

We're going to pick up right where we left off. Again, it's important to point out that for all of these cases there could be different workup strategies, diagnoses, and treatment plans, all of which may be completely reasonable.

What we're going for here is big picture,

high yield teaching points that will stick.

As such, topics are not covered in a comprehensive fashion and in most scenarios the patients

would require additional workup, treatment, and follow-up for their specific

issue. That's absolutely correct and this also bears repeating never forget to call for help as an intern

especially in July you are never alone as a brand new intern call early and call

often. All right before we get to the, let's step back for a moment and pretend.

Pretend you respond to an urgent page,

you walk into a patient's room, you get the story,

you examine them, and unfortunately, after doing so, you have no clue what to do you draw a blank

and you don't know where to go from here. It happens. It happens definitely I've been there before.

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