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Podcast: The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
Episode: #134 Urinary Tract Infections Delirium and Voltaire
Description: âUrinary tract infectionsâ (UTIs) are overdiagnosed. Antibiotics are overprescribed. UTIs are inappropriately blamed for geriatric syndromes (eg delirium) despite little supporting evidence. Our guest, Tom Finucane MD, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins makes us question everything. Topics: How can we diagnose âUTIâ? Who needs treatment? Do urinary tract symptoms matter? Does malodorous urine correlate with infection? Whoâs at risk for pyelonephritis and sepsis? Donât miss this paradigm changing episode. And stop using the term âurinary tract infectionâ unless itâs prefaced by air quotes! Sponsor: Join ACP's Internal Medicine Meeting 2019 April 11-13th in Philadelphia, PA ...