Hello and welcome to season 2 episode 52 of the physician assistant exam review

podcast. This week we're going to be covering we're going to be finishing our

discussion of obstructive pulmonary diseases. My name is Brian Wallace. I'm the host and creator here at Physician

Assistant exam review. You can find all the notes over on the website

www physician assistant exam review.com and it's got all the old shows over there. So anything you can't find in the

podcast feed you can find on the website for the most part. There's a lot of stuff over there

that you may be interested in if you're looking to pass your exams.

There's also a ton of information on study tips over there,

so it's another place you can go for all of that stuff.

This week we're going to continue our discussion

of obstructive pulmonary diseases

and continue our discussion of pulmonology in general.

Pulmonology is a huge part. I think it's like 10% of your exam.

It's also usually the part that I do the worst on. I'm not sure why. There isn't that much

information. It's not that difficult. I don't know if I just don't focus on it enough

but it tends to be my lowest score. Cardiology being one I do really well and again

maybe just be the way that I study the way that I look at things that I spend a

lot more time on

cardiology. Either way, we're going to be continuing our

discussion today of obstructive pulmonary diseases and going along with my

theme of trying to make things a little simpler, what I want you to understand is obstructive pulmonary diseases, right?

Obstructive just means something's in the way. It's obstructing the lungs, the passageways through the lungs are being blocked by something.

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