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at www.gitfreed.a.i. Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and today I'm going to give

you the approach to tummyache, the approach to pediatric abdomen, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, pain, abdominal

distension, all of the important GI stuff in kids.

We're just going to lump all of that together as tummy ache.

Crying baby with a big distended abdomen?

Tummy ache. Vomiting? Tummyache. Diarrhea? Tummy ache. It's all the same approach.

Now, I know that I haven't even done an episode on adult abdominal pain yet, and that core topic

will come soon, I promise. But I actually think that

PEDs GI is a better place to start. And here's why. Kids are trickier. They can't articulate

things well. They're very vulnerable. And for numerous reasons, we have to be very selective

with our testing. And so you can't just slack off.

You really have to think through kids. And so if you can master tummy ache, adult abdominal pain

is going to be super easy. Plus, PEDS GI stuff is all over step two because it covers

peds and it covers family medicine and it covers surgery.

And so you really just need to pay attention today, even if you only see adults on your

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