Family Practice Pearls

Here are the lecture handouts for the FAFP Low Back Pain lecture. Enjoy! Click on the following links to download high quality PDF files ...

This chart is based on the 2017 AHA/ACC guidelines. Click here  to download the PDF file. Enjoy!

Controlled Medication Agreements for controlled substances are an important part of pain management. For the patient, they offer informed ...

It's almost impossible to practice medicine now without using technology.  CLICK HERE  for a small PDF file with working links! This ...

As a hospitalist, the amount of horrific infections that I see everyday is enough to make a person hide underneath a bed and never want t...

In a population-based study, 9 percent of adults older than 65 years with iron deficiency anemia had gastrointestinal cancer. Yikes! I kno...

Since dizziness can be cause by anything from BPPV to brain tumor, diagnosing the cause of dizziness can be a hugh challenge! This is an...

Let's face it, as physicians, we make the worst patients! I don't have high blood pressure! Eh, I'll go on a statin next yea...

What do we say to a patient after a miscarriage? You didn't do anything to cause this miscarriage... You didn't do anything to...

The BMJ just published an observational study explaining the redness of Rudolph's nose—evidently, reindeer have 25% more capillaries...

Here is a chart that I adapted from UpToDate. It lists the most commonly used antidepressants and their side effects, cost, and other rand...

Most of us doctors know about the Walmart $4 Medications. Heck, they started it all and now it seems every pharmacy has their own $4 list...

It's about time that the CDC started to take Zombies invasion seriously! Geeeeesh! I mean how many people need to succumb to the vi...

Here is a simple algorithm for the workup of pediatric anemia. Hope it helps. This handout is from a lecture that I recently presented at t...

The ADA guidelines for diagnosing diabetes are not always straight forward—there is a barrage of random numbers to memorize. See if this han...

It's almost impossible to practice medicine now without using technology.  CLICK HERE  for a small PDF file with some cool links for so...

Ok... I know what you're thinking: what in Sam Hill does "teaching a kid to ride a bike" have to do with medicine? Well, we do...

(SOURCE: Wikipedia) Neonatal jaundice! Should I start bili lights or not? AHHHHHHH! Nomograms! Charts! Calculating lab draw times! As...

What do you do when the Nix (1% permethrin) does not get rid of the patient's lice? Well... Assuming that you are doing all the other...

Ok... I admit it. Vagisil cream is not the most manly thing a guy can pick up at the neighborhood Walgreens. Heck, I'd rather pick up a ...