All right. Welcome. This is episode 613 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts. In today's podcast, we're going to be talking about a topic I've titled, perioperative medicine. Perioperative medicine. This podcast is pretty high yield for the USMLEs, and it's one of these things that falls under the purview of social sciences. Okay.

Again, remember, the social sciences these days constitute about, you know, you know,

between that and biostatistics, probably about 10 to 15% of the USMLEs. And if those are subjects

you struggle with, you may be interested in the classes I offer.

So not this coming week, but next week, the week after that, I do have a four-hour

biostatistics class and a five-hour social sciences and ethics class.

Tons of people have taken those classes and found them to be extremely helpful.

All right.

So this podcast, I guess maybe the first question I should answer is why is this material hard?

The thing is a lot of this material is hard because many times it's not something you can reason through.

It's something that you have to actually like, you know, know about like you either.

It's one of those you either know it or you don't kind of propositions, right?

So you're going to

see me discuss a lot of scenarios, scenarios, scenarios with this. If you pay attention, you know,

make good notes, go through them. I think you're going to be in some really good, in some really

good shape. Okay. I think you're going to be in some really, really, really good shape. All right.

So let's go ahead and begin, right?

So what if they give you a question about a diabetic?

And you're told that this diabetic, you know, is on a bunch of different, you know, diabetes medications.

You know, they can give you like metformin or the person is on a sulfonylurea or whatever.

What are you supposed to do? You know, the person is coming a sulfonylurea or whatever, what are you supposed to do?

You know, the person is coming in for surgery or whatever.

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