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INK+OXYGEN #2: Showing Up
A Christmas morning at the kitchen table—drawing with my kids, thinking about breathing rhythms in the ICU, and learning why showing up matters more than being productive.
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🧬 Dupilumab: Biologics in COPD
The First Real Paradigm Shift in COPD Care —
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Pickwickian Legacy: Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome (Past to Present)
In its pages, the rotund and perpetually sleepy character Joe the Fat Boy embodies what 20th-century clinicians first described as the “Pickwickian syndrome”: profound obesity, excessive daytime somnolence, and elevated CO2 (earlier known to be polycythemia).
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Article of the Week: Vocal Cord Dysfunction
In VCD, the inspiratory limb often appears flattened or coved due to paradoxical vocal fold closure during inspiration. This pattern is a key diagnostic clue that differentiates VCD from asthma, where the expiratory limb is predominantly affected.
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The Lingering Cough
Have you ever wondered why coughs outlast colds? Studies shows that post-infectious cough persists in approximately 25% of patients with upper respiratory infections, sometimes for up to two months after the initial illness has resolved.
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ILD Differentials
ILD Q and A
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Diddling with Diamox (acetazolamide): Mountains to Medicine
👁️ ➡️ 🧗♀️ ➡️ 🧠➡️ 🩸 Let’s talk about a drug you see prescribed for use in a few different scenarios: acetazolamide. Who made this and when? • Robin & Clapp at American Cyanamid • Attribution to them 1951 Why was it developed? • To treat glaucoma • First medically used in 1952 How does this drug treat glaucoma?
