#221 Colon Cancer Screening After Age 75 | 5 Pearls Segment Part 3
“Should you stop screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) at 75?” This episode explores how to individualize screening decisions based on life...
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#220 Colon Cancer Screening Nuances: 5 Pearls Segment Part 2
“What’s the best way to screen?” This episode breaks down the pros, limitations, and follow-up needs of FIT, Cologuard, CT colonography, and...
#219 Updates in Triglycerides
“The triglycerides are high. Now what?” This episode breaks down a practical approach to elevated TGs, from knowing when to check ApoB or no...
#218 Early-Onset CRC: 5 Pearls Segment Part 1
“Too young for colon cancer.” This episode unpacks the red flags of early-onset CRC, from blood in the stool and iron deficiency anemia to p...
#217 Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder: 5 Pearls Segment
“It didn’t work.” This episode breaks down practical treatment options (dosing options for naltrexone, acamprosate, topiramate, gabapentin)...
#216 Clinician Grief: At the Beside Segment
Have you ever lost a patient and found yourself thinking about them long after the shift ended? This episode explores the grief clinicians c...
#215 Gallbladder & Biliary Testing: 5 Pearls Segment
How to choose between RUQ ultrasound, CT, HIDA, MRCP, EUS, and ERCP based on the clinical picture? When should you move from diagnostic imag...
#214 Hyponatremia Management: A Core IM Classic
Throwback: Should you really fluid-restrict every patient with SIADH? When can IV fluids make hyponatremia better or worse? Are salt tabs ac...
#213 Hypertension First-Line Medications Troubleshooting | Bread & Butter Series
Why can lower-dose combinations be more effective and better tolerated than maximizing one medication? How to troubleshoot common challenges...
#212 Top 10 Highlights of the New Lipid Guidelines
Learn from primary care docs what has been practiced and changed from the 2026 ACC/AHA Lipid Guidelines! Learn how the new CPR framework (Ca...
#211 Breaking Down MASLD vs. MASH and the MAESTRO-NASH & ESSENCE Trials: Beyond Journal Club Segment
MASLD affects nearly one in three adults worldwide, yet many patients remain undiagnosed until advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis develops. So,...
#210 HTN in Dialysis: 5 Pearls Segment
What blood pressure should we target in patients on hemodialysis? Why volume control remains the foundation of treatment? How blood pressure...
#209 Dialysis and Fluid Management: 5 Pearls Segment
Why is fluid management the most important part of dialysis care? This episode explores the fundamentals of hemodialysis , why ESKD patients...
#208 AI vs. Human with Post-Op AFib: Bread & Butter Series
Can AI manage post-op atrial fibrillation or does medicine still require human judgment? Using post-op AFib as a case study, we explore wher...
#207 Is There a Doctor on Board? In-Flight Emergencies
We start with a gripping story of seizures and use it as a jumping-off point to unpack practical pearls for in-flight emergencies. Along the...
#206 Eosinophilia: 5 Pearls Segment
Can you distinguish benign eosinophilia from a sign of serious disease, and know exactly when to act at the bedside? In this high-yield epis...
#205 Nutrition Studies, Coffee and the CRAVE Trial: Beyond Journal Club with the NEJM Group
Is coffee helping or harming our patients’ hearts? In this Beyond Journal Club, we unpack the CRAVE trial and use it as a lens to answer a b...
#204 Diabetic Foot Infections & Osteomyelitis: 5 Pearls Segment
Why can these infections be tricky? How to diagnose osteomyelitis at the bedside? Do we always need IV vs oral antibiotics? And the best for...
#203 POCUS for AKI & Dialysis | Real Cases That Changed Management
A dialysis patient with a chronic cough: is it COPD, or are they still volume overloaded? A patient with AKI and hyperkalemia says they’re s...
#202 Dementia Part 2: Gray Matters Segment
Most clinicians see dementia medications on the med rec, but many of us aren’t sure how much they actually help . In this episode we break d...