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Physician Assistant Exam Review

S2 E075 Microcytic Anemia and a Better Way to Remember

Physician Assistant Exam Review

Brian Wallace PA-C

Pance, Assistant, Physician, Review, Panre, Science & Medicine, Medicine

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Anemia Anemia means low RBC or Hgb count. A patient could be bleeding out and have a low Hgb or they could have a dietary deficiency. Anemia is a starting place. As we get more detailed and more specific we can get a more clear diagnosis and treatment plan. One of the easiest places to […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to season two episode 75 of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast.

0:07.0

My name is Brian Walls and this week we're going to be continuing hematology with anemia

0:10.8

specifically microstatic anemia.

0:15.9

Alright, welcome aboard, my name is Brian Walls and I'm the host and creator here at Physician

0:27.8

Assistant Exam Review dot com.

0:30.4

That's the website and this is the podcast.

0:32.4

I'm so excited to have you here with us as we move through hematology and we start to

0:36.4

explain some of the ways to think about this material and see what we're going to talk

0:41.1

about at the end is a little bit of the bigger picture.

0:43.1

We talked about that in the last episode but we're going to talk about a little bit more

0:46.9

and expand on that idea a little bit more this week because it's an idea that really

0:53.0

makes a big difference in how you study and how you see your tests, how you prepare

0:58.2

for your exams very specifically in the may issue of the Physician Assistant Exam Scholars

1:04.5

newsletter which goes out on May 1st covering some very specific ideas on how to prepare

1:12.1

how to study.

1:14.4

But in order to use the techniques that I put into that newsletter you have to really

1:21.6

be able to see the big picture, you have to be able to see the whole thing and as you

1:24.7

move through anemia today you'll start to see how that unfolds and how that works.

1:30.4

So anyway what I want to do today is start with anemia and let's just start with a couple

1:36.8

of private questions.

1:37.8

So what is the test for measuring red blood cell size?

1:41.6

What is the test for measuring red blood cell size recovered that last episode?

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