The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

#121 HIV Care for the Internist

#120 Policy, Patients, Payments, Paperwork

#119 Nutrition Pearls, Heart Health and Bacon

#118 Female Sexual Problems with Stacy Lindau MD

#117 Clostridium Difficile: IDSA Guidelines, Bad Puns, and Random Pearls

#116 Geriatric Psychiatry: Sleep, Dementia, and Behavioral Disturbances

#115 Geriatric Depression

#114 High Value Care: Assess Quality, Mitigate Diagnostic Uncertainty, Overcome Barriers

#113 Gout: Uric acid targets, urate lowering therapy, and random questions from social media

Gout management requires a shift from merely suppressing acute symptoms to addressing the underlying hyperuricemia through consistent urate-lowering therapy (ULT). Rheumatologist Dr. Tuhina Neogi emphasizes that clinicians should initiate ULT only after acute flares resolve to avoid exacerbating inflammation through ra...

#112 Gout Flares: Bathtubs and Firefighting

Gout management requires distinguishing acute flares from other inflammatory conditions through clinical assessment, as crystal-proven diagnosis remains uncommon in primary care. Elevated serum urate is a necessary but insufficient cause of gout, with renal urate transport abnormalities serving as the primary driver ra...

#111: Hotcakes - Complementary Medicine in Cancer, Dosing Aspirin by Body Weight, Marijuana & Respiratory Symptoms, Penicillin Allergies and More!

#110: Driver’s safety for Older Adults: When is it Time to Give Up the Keys?

#109: Things We Do For No Reason: A High Value Episode

#108: Point-of-care Ultrasound for the Internist

#107: Women in Medicine, Be Bold

#106: Hotcakes: Cardiac risk, diabetes, pulmonary embolism, opioid use disorder, neck ties and nose picking?

#105: Lyme Disease and Tick-Borne Illness with ID Expert Paul Sax

#104: Renal tubular acidosis with Kidney Boy, Joel Topf MD

In this episode of The Curbsiders, hosted by Matthew Watto, Stuart Brigham, and Paul Williams, Dr. Joel Topf, also known as Kidney Boy, discusses renal tubular acidosis (RTA) and non-anion gap metabolic acidosis. The episode begins with a discussion of a favorite failure of Dr. Topf's and the use of Twitter in medical ...

#103: Train Your Brain: Mapping out your road to expertise

#102: Hotcakes: Asthma, Smoking Cessation, PCP Prophylaxis, Procalcitonin