PA Boards 72: Is it safe to combine a macrolide and a statin?

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🗓️ 22 September 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome to episode 72 of the physician assistant boards.com podcast
0:05.1	today we're gonna get into a listener's question regarding statins and macrolides.
0:08.9	We're gonna get into the safety profile and if they should even be avoided in the first place.
0:13.2	Maybe you should not give him accolade when you give a patient he stat.
0:16.3	So we're going to get into that and as to why people actually are scared, you know,
0:20.3	of combining the two medications.
0:21.5	But before we get into that, I really want to just take a quick
0:24.0	second to thank everybody who ordered the who did the pre-orders for the audio review course and for all those people
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0:53.2	notice that it's going to ask for one dollar. That's not because I'm charging a
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1:06.7	any credit card information. It's just going to ask you for an email and
1:09.5	then we can go ahead and give you the free Gastrointerology review so you can test it out and see if this is
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