Some notes on calcium-channel blockers (CCBs)

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DHP CCBs (nifedipine & amlodipine)

Adverse effects of DHP CCBs

Non-DHP CCBs (Verapamil & Diltiazem)

Tapeworms😂

Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccine

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The word 'parasite' meant someone who shared one’s food in return for providing amusement and flattery. The ‘parasitus ridiculus’ was a popular character in Greek and early Roman comedies and they even had joke books to help them should they run out of witticisms. The greed of the parasite was a constant source of fun for dramatists and he was often given crude nicknames such as ‘little brush–because he swept the table clean’.

Why the Ebola virus became as famous as the Kardashians?

The Ebola virus is well known in the developed world because of its appalling pathology and images of patients being treated by nurses and doctors dressed in spacesuit-like protective clothing. However, although the Ebola virus causes about 70% mortality, the numbers of people who have actually died of the infection are relatively few.
The fact that Ebola virus has been touted as a possible biological warfare agent has also helped to engender interest in the disease and funds to study and control it. By comparison, Human African Trypanosomiasis (often referred to as ‘sleeping sickness’) causes 100% mortality if untreated and kills many more people than Ebola but is seldom mentioned in the media. The reason is simple, Human African Trypanosomiasis kills slowly by comparison and those who suffer are among the poorest in Africa and live in some of the most war-torn and disorganised regions of the continent.

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

- Every patient tells a story

What the patient brings to the process of diagnosis is unique: the particular and private facts of his life and illness.” And what the physician brings is the knowledge and understanding that will help him order that story so that it makes sense both to the doctor—who uses it to make a diagnosis—and to the patient—who must then incorporate that subplot into the larger story of his life.

- Every patient tells a story

يأتي المريض لعملية التشخيص بشيءٍ فريد: التفاصيل الخاصة بحياته الشخصية ومرَضِه. أمّا ما يأتي به الطبيب، فهو المعرفة العلمية والقدرة الإستنتاجية التي تجعله قادرًا على ترتيب اللغز وحياكة القصة بشكلٍ يجعلها مفهومة للطبيب—الذي يستخدمها للوصول لتشخيص طبي—وللمريض—الذي يدمج قصة المرض مع القصة الأكبر التي هي حياتُه.

From the outset, the clinician is assimilating potentially relevant information from the patient’s posture, appearance, speech, demeanour and response to questions. Who is this patient? What kind of person is he? What are his anxieties? What is the reason for consulting a doctor at this time?