CME/CE Education

Managing anticoagulant therapy has always been a delicate balancing act between thrombus and hemorrhage.

Powerful new CT technology has enabled life-saving medical advances.

David Newman-Toker MD presents. Dizziness is a common presenting complaint in ambulatory care and the ED, accounting for 10 million visits a year.  As a chief complaint, dizziness and vertigo have dozens of possible causes, ranging from benign and self-limiting to immediate and life-threatening.

David Newman-Toker MD presents. 800,000 American are diagnosed with stroke every year.  Despite a steep decline in mortality since the 1960’s, stroke is still the 3rd leading cause of death, and it remains the leading cause of serious disability. Stroke is an unfolding event with many different presentations. 

Robert M. Centor MD presents. Every year, about 670,000 patients present with chief compliant of sore throat to primary care physician offices in the US. About 90% of them are viral and require only symptomatic relief.

Robert M. Centor MD presents. A case study: A 54 year old woman was admitted to the hospital with the diagnosis of heart failure, presumed to be left-sided. She had shortness of breath, leg edema, but no pulmonary edema on chest x-ray.  She was given diuretics and this was followed by a rise in her BUN and creatinine.

Robert M. Centor MD presents. In medicine, Fast Thinking can represent expertise born of long experience, such as when you correctly recognize an illness at a glance. It is also a common source of error in diagnosis, a snap judgment that turns out to be wrong. Slow thinking means painstaking, methodical, step-by-step reasoning.

Robert M. Centor MD presents. Being a good diagnostician depends on a whole chain of events going right. Avoiding diagnostic error requires the willingness to reconsider, re-visit, and re-think one’s own diagnosis or that of another.

Primary care physicians are in short supply, posing the risk of patient overload and increased medical error. Malpractice claims for Family and General Practitioners are on the rise.