Welcome to the American Family Physician podcast for the November 1st, 2017 issue.

I'm Steve.

I'm Joanna.

I'm Sue.

I'm Shari. We are residents and faculty, mostly

residents from the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix Family Medicine Residency.

This time on the podcast, we're going to talk about chronic cough, physical exam for the rotator

cuff, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, statins,

and topical ensets.

The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and do not represent the opinions of the American Academy of Family Physicians,

the editor of American Family Physician, or Banner Health.

Do not use this podcast for medical advice.

Instead, see your own family doctor for medical care.

We're on. advice. Instead, see your own family doctor for medical care. Okay, let's start with our first feature article.

Chronic cough evaluation and management from doctors Misha Day and Maladi from Gainesville,

Florida.

Here's a humdinger that'll tickle your throat, or, you know, not.

Let's pretend it's February and half your clinic patients are coming in for chronic cough. Now, I'm talking about a true chronic cough,

which in adults last longer than eight weeks, as opposed to an acute cough, which is less than

three weeks, or a subacute cough, which lasts from three to eight weeks. How do you approach

each visit? We want to take a good history and identify

potential triggers. Yep. And then in adults, focus on the four most common causes of chronic cough,

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