Hello, men students. My name is Zach Golson and thank you for downloading this week's

episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast. What I want to talk about this week is nutrition. Not like how I have a

nutritious diet, which I definitely don't.

What I want to talk about are the disorders that we like never think about that really do affect people with bad nutrition.

Alcoholics, eating disorder patients, old people, poor people with GI disorders.

I have seen several of these cases during residency. They are out there,

especially with our patients. We probably should know more about this than anybody else. They are

dangerous. And when you reasonably put this in your differential, it makes you sound like you're

really thinking through stuff. I think it makes you sound like a good student.

Today, we are going to cover the royal family

of nutritional deficiencies.

And this family's name are the Bs, the B vitamins.

Sure, we know that iron deficiency can cause anemia

and vitamin D deficiency causes osteoporosis,

vitamin C causes scurvy, obvious, big players, primary care type stuff. But the players in

emergency medicine aren't those ones. They're the Bs. B1, B3, B9, B12. They're like the

Illuminati of nutritional disorders.

You know they're out there, but they're more widespread and more sneaky and more dangerous

than even you realize.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

The top five nasty nutritional disorders.

Dry Berry Berry and Wernicke-Korsikov,

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