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Podcast: The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
Episode: #189 Medical Overuse: Common Cases of Overtesting, Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment
Description: Team up with the authors of the JAMA Medicine series on Medical Overuse, Dr. Dan Morgan @dr_dmorgan (University of Maryland) and Dr. Deborah Korenstein @DKorenstein (Memorial Sloan Kettering). We discuss procalcitonin (again!), the dangers of incidentalomas, risks of chest CT for lung cancer screening, the easiest place to get antibiotics for a viral infection, and why not to treat subclinical hypothyroidism despite guidelines. Trying to find ways to shed the fat off of some common medical practices? Look no further. ACP members can claim CME-MOC credit at https://www.acponline.org/curbsiders (CME goes live at 0900 E...