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Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

PA Boards 28: Cocaine

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8996 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2014

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Cocaine is used by 14 million people worldwide which is 3% of the global population 15-64 years of age!  This is a very commonly used drug, so make sure you know about it!  We'll go over the pharmacology and how this drug can actually affect different organ systems.  We'll also touch on how patients will present. Let's learn cocaine!

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on guys and welcome to episode 28 of the physician

0:03.7

assistant boards.com podcast. As you can see, my voice is it's better. I haven't

0:09.3

completely recovered 100% from my little laryngitis that I had last week, but it's definitely a lot better.

0:15.4

So we can definitely go and move on with the podcast, no problems, feeling good, feeling great.

0:20.5

So we're going to go ahead and just move forward.

0:22.4

I remember last year, this thing actually lasted for about four weeks.

0:26.0

And every year I get really, really bad allergies.

0:29.0

And so the allergies actually predispose to a little bit of laryngitis.

0:32.0

I actually started a medication right

0:35.2

away, so the actual hoarseness itself lasted maybe three days. Still have it, but not as bad as before. before I mean before I wasn't able to

0:44.5

to really speak at all but uh doing a lot better so we're gonna go ahead and

0:49.0

move today we're gonna talk about cocaine before get started, I want to just give a little bit

0:55.1

of house cleaning or just, you know, give you guys an update as to what's been going on with

0:59.4

the website. So if you go over to physician- boards.com that's an S at the end of the boards

1:06.4

you'll actually notice a few things one of the things is I finished the

1:11.2

psychiatry section over the on the exam prep section.

1:14.4

So what that means is I've essentially gone over all the organ systems.

1:18.9

The two organ systems left now are going to be dermatology and infectious disease and I'll go ahead

1:24.8

and start that next week.

1:26.8

The other difference that you'll see or the other change that you'll see is if you go over on

1:31.0

the video section, I actually started doing video transcripts so

1:36.0

what does that mean that means that for every video that I post you know

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