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Welcome back to Behind the Night.

We've all made it through August, one month into the academic year, and for all the interns out there, congratulations, you survived.

Behind the Night team, thought it was an appropriate time to dust off a not-so-old relic and bring back two episodes from our medical student and intern survival guide series called Common and Critical Intern Dilemmas.

These episodes were first released in July of 2018.

And in these episodes, my friend Bahagnikolian and I take you through Common and Critical Surgical Floor Issues.

This includes everything from the mundane to the most hardcore emergencies you will face as an intern. We hope you enjoy.

Welcome to Behind the Night, 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 George-Off.

And I'm Bahagnikolian.

And we are your hosts.

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 DAW.

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 work-up 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 work-up, 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.

Before we get to the cases, 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.

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