Welcome, my name is Devine. This is episode 494 of the Devine Intervention Podcast.

In today's podcast, we're going to be examining a fallacy.

It's a higher topic, frequently tested on all the USMLE so I just want to make sure that you can have it down.

So typically, let's start off with a question. So what if they give with a question.

So what if they give you a question about a 10 year old child?

They tell you that this child looks pale.

Parents are bringing to the office because he looks pale, and that he has been having

like chronic right and left upper quadrant pain.

And he tell you that he has abnormal contours to his face and they give you a bunch of

labs you notice that the hemoglobin is pretty low.

Let's say it's like six and you notice that well it's not just low but the MCB is less than

80 so it's a microcylic anemia and then you're told that the serum ferretin is pretty elevated.

When you see something like this, and you are told that it has required many blood transfusions in the past,

when you see something like this, what should you be thinking of? told that he has required many blood transfusions in the past.

We see something like this, what should he be thinking of?

I hope you're thinking about some kind of fallaceme.

So in this short podcast, let's go ahead and break down fallaceme.

So again, they're pretty important disorders to know and understand.

But basically, we know that thalacemia is the effect that a ton of people actually,

about 280 million people worldwide worldwide have Salasimia. And to understand

Thalacinia, you got to go back to hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the thing that helps

us carry oxygen in our bodies and as we know there are two major types right

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