Shoulder pain with partial rotator-cuff tear.
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What cough syrup should I buy?
A 21 year old with cold symptoms, including a cough (little money) called to ask if they should buy a cough syrup with dextromethorphan? Here is the data. What would you do? Here is a PAPER Here is a honey of a PAPER2
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Arthroscopy for knee pain.
A 70 year old patient of mine called to ask if he should have an arthroscopy for arthritis of his knee. What does he need to know to decide? What would you do with the information in this table? Here is a PAPER Here is another PAPER
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Switch from tamoxifen to AI?
A 61 year old woman was advised to switch from tamoxifen to an aromatase inhibitor (AI) 3 years after starting tamoxifen for hormone receptor positive breast cancer. She asked for a second opinion. This is a common question. Here is the data. What would you do knowing this information? Here is a PAPER.
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Added drug for HER2 breast cancer?
A 59 year old woman, during routine follow up care for her breast cancer, was asked to consider taking another chemotherapy drug. This surprised her as she had completed a full year of chemotherapy just 2 years earlier. What does she need to know to consider adding another chemotherapy drug? Here is a PAPER
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Screen for prostate cancer?
A 72 year old man asks if he should continue with prostate cancer screening using a PSA test. What does he need to know to make this decision? Here is the PAPER:
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Bilateral mastectomy for DCIS?
A patient asks if she should have bilateral mastectomy for her Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS). What do you think the patient must know to make this decision? Here is a PAPER:
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Shingles vaccine for a 50 year old?
A friend got a shingles vaccine on the recommendation of his physician. My friend is healthy and 50 years old and now asks if the vaccine was a good decision? What do you think he needs to know to answer his question? Here is the PAPER:
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