Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and thank you for downloading this week's episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast.

We are still cruising through our summer of abdominal inxed. We are covering that huge list of core concepts, the differential diagnosis for abdominal pain.

And so far we've covered the most high-yield GI causes,

and we've started working through our GU causes, the pelvises. Last week, we talked about

the queen mother of all GU critical diagnoses, ectopic pregnancy. All women of childbearing age

with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding need

a pregnancy test. This week, though, I'm going to take it in a completely opposite direction.

And to be honest, this topic isn't even on the CDM curriculum, even though it probably should be.

This is a lecture you might not hear in residency. And I think it's probably one of the

most high-yield discussions I can never have with you, if I'm honest. And so let me preface this

by saying one of the single best lectures I've ever heard, ever, regarding emergency medicine,

at least, which kind of turned me on to this topic and you should absolutely

listen to it was the EM cases podcast UTI episode. It was episode 94 because it was just so

counter to what I was taught at Ohio State in medical school. It was so counter to what I was

seeing done in residency at UT. It was so opposite

of just how I was practicing. And so it was on the show, it was Justin Morgan Stern. I think

that's how you say it. He was on that episode. And so he has a blog called First 10 EM that covered

UTI as well. And there was kind of a lot of overlap.

And so these are my kind of my primary sources today, just kind of FYI.

It was some of the best content I feel like has ever been put out there.

And it was regarding this, like, quote, boring topic, urinary tract infection.

So let's go this week.

...