Hospital and Internal Medicine Podcast

Jan 27 2022 130 ep. 16 mins 13.8k
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Hospital & Internal Medicine lectures are intended for the medical professional who enjoys learning for the sake of it. Dr. Porat is a practicing Hospitalist and Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

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Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (Diastolic CHF) and SGLT-2 Inhibitor Therapy

Jan 27 2022 11 mins  
The double-blind, randomized phase III EMPEROR-Preserved trial showed a benefit of the sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor empagliflozin in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Now let us dig a bit more into those headlines.

Should You Postpone Interventions for INFECTED Necrotizing Pancreatitis?

Oct 18 2021 10 mins  
An important recently published randomized control trial provides guidance on this controversy.

Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis - Unique Infections in Cirrhosis part 2

Jun 27 2021 18 mins  

Unique Infectious Considerations in Cirrhosis - part 1

Jun 14 2021 7 mins  

Diabetic Gastric Emptying Abnormalities (and sometimes normal) - Part 1

May 09 2021 10 mins  
Almost nobody feels comfortable managing DELAYED gastric emptying (gastroparesis) and very few medical providers even think about RAPID gastric emptying in their diabetic patients. Even if you send these patients to GI specialists, your blood sugar co-management of these patients can be heavily impacted by these issues. Is delayed gastric emptying always a bad thing? When your pati

Gastric Emptying Abnormalities - Part 2

May 08 2021 9 mins  
Can we trust a nuclear study to nail the diagnosis? Are motor abnormalities really the cause of symptoms? What is a POP procedure?

Morphine for later stage COPD patients not on hospice

Apr 09 2021 8 mins  
Does regular, low-dose, oral sustained-release morphine improve disease-specific health status or cause respiratory adverse effects in patients with moderate to very severe chronic breathlessness due to advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Digging in on the latest study.

The JAMA controversy and loss of conversation in medicine

Apr 05 2021 19 mins  
My take on what went down at the Journal of the American Medical Association. I disagree with the comment there isn't "structural racism in health care", but was the backlash against the Editor who didn't say it (and actually opposed the comment) an over-reaction? Can we have discussions about the controversial issues that affect healthcare (like gun violence or abortion) without c

Cows Milk - Healthy or Not?

Mar 06 2021 11 mins  

Psilocybin Mushrooms - will they become an accepted medicine?

Feb 19 2021 28 mins