Hello, curbsiders listeners.

We are excited to announce that our good friends, Hannah Abrams, Tony Brew and Avi Cooper

are launching their very own podcast called The Curious Connections.

This is inspired by their famous tutorials that seek to answer why.

Why do certain diseases cause clubbing?

Why can tri-methodprims, sulfa-methoxazol, raise creatinine without causing an AKI?

Why is cancer a hyper-coagulable state?

They'll be releasing episodes about twice per month, so be sure to join their mailing

list at CuriousConnitions.com and subscribe on your podcast player of choice.

So now, without further ado, please enjoy this first episode of The Curious Clinicians.

Welcome to The Curious Clinicians, a medical podcast that asks why.

I'm Hannah Abrams, I'm a medical student in Houston, Texas.

And I'm Tony Brew and internist, hospitalist in the Greater Boston area.

And I'm Avi Cooper, a pulmonary critical care physician in Columbus, Ohio.

Today on the podcast, our question examines a physical exam finding that's often commented

on, but maybe not always well understood.

Finger nail clubbing.

Avi wrote a tutorial that asked the question, why does clubbing happen in so many different

diseases?

And today we're going to break it down.

So Avi, what got you interested in learning more about clubbing?

So it occurred to me that all of my note templates, all of the notes that I read from students

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