Although it is relatively easy to spot the difference between pericardial and pleural effusions on a chest x-ray, in medical training we have less exposure to ultrasound…
As a general cardiology fellow I discuss the risks and benefits of medications, diagnostic tests, and procedures with my patients everyday. Often I’m asked about unproven herbal…
Marijuana Use and Cardiovascular Disease 🍃♥️ Yesterday was 4/20 so let’s take a look at a review article on marijuana’s effect on cardiovascular disease (CVD) published in…
In medicine we colloquially say someone ‘codes’ if their heart stops requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or if they can’t breath on their own requiring intubation. So ‘code…
When you have a heart attack, or a myocardial infarction (MI), one of the most common outcomes is the placement of a stent inside your coronary arteries,…
In June I completed my three year internal medicine residency at Hahnemann University Hospital/Drexel University College of Medicine. In July the hospital, recently sold to new owners,…
I just started a new YouTube channel! My first three videos are on Caribbean med schools, why I chose to pursue an internal medicine residency, and how…
Getting into residency isn’t easy and medical students are often left to figure out the roadmap to residency on their own. In the past I’ve given out general…
I recently came back from a trip to Barbados where I gave the incoming first semester class of Ross University some advice on how to succeed in…
I’m excited to share my next interview. Keerthi Shah was a senior resident at my residency program and is now a first year gastroenterology fellow at Hahnemann…
