Hypercalcemia
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Your patient is furious!
He showed up to your office this morning demanding to speak with you regarding his most recent lab results.
You had seen him for a routine visit two days ago, and you haven't had a chance to review the results, that came in late last evening...
...but the patient had.
While reviewing the labs through his patient portal, the patient noticed something that concerned him very much: he noted his calcium was elevated.
Not knowing what that means, he did what any sensible person would do, he googled it and of course he found out that his high calcium is probably due to cancer.
Yes, another diagnosis of cancer made by google!
So, he's upset that he wasn't immediately called in for this, and instead had to figure this out on his own; this is no doubt driving much of his anger.
Nonetheless, you better know what you're talking about, in this very important conversation you're about to have.
So, today on the Medgeeks podcast, we'll be discussing hypercalcemia!
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| 0:00.0 | Your patient is furious. |
| 0:02.8 | He showed up at your office this morning |
| 0:04.8 | and is demanding to speak with you about his recent lab results. |
| 0:08.6 | You had seen him for a routine visit two days ago |
| 0:11.1 | and haven't had a chance to review the labs that were |
| 0:13.2 | resulted late yesterday evening. But he has. While reviewing his labs through |
| 0:18.1 | his patient portal, he noticed something that concerned him very much. He saw |
| 0:21.6 | that his calcium was elevated. Not knowing exactly what that |
| 0:25.2 | means he did what any sensible person would do. He Googled it. And of course, |
| 0:30.0 | what did he find out that his high calcium is probably due to cancer. |
| 0:35.0 | Yes, another diagnosis of cancer made by Google. |
| 0:39.0 | So he's upset that he wasn't called immediately with the results and that he instead had to figure it out for himself. |
| 0:44.8 | Obviously he's afraid of such a weighty diagnosis and is filled with questions, which is no doubt driving much of his |
| 0:50.9 | anger. Nonetheless you had better know what you're talking about in this very important conversation |
| 0:57.3 | you're about to have. |
| 0:59.1 | Today on the Medgeeks podcast, we discuss Hypercalcemia. Hey everybody this is Eric Gordon and you are listening to the med geeks podcast. |
| 1:23.3 | If you want to know something about me, |
| 1:24.8 | I really like endocrinology. |
| 1:26.9 | I'm not sure why something about the pathways |
| 1:29.8 | and the feedback loops just always seems to interest me. |
| 1:33.0 | So it's with great excitement that we discuss hypercalcemia today, |
| 1:37.0 | because much of calcium regulation is under the influence of one of the small but mighty endocrine glands of the body. |
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