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Study entry process

August 12, 2010

If you are interested in participating in the study, please email us at the study email: lemierrestudy at zoho dot com We will send you a consent form by email.  You need to sign it and return by fax. You will need to obtain a copy of your hospital discharge summary and mail it to [...]

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Consent form

August 11, 2010

Informed Consent Document   TITLE OF RESEARCH:      Investigation of the Epidemiology if Lemierre’s Disease   IRB PROTOCOL:                X100329023   INVESTIGATOR:                Dr. Robert Centor   SPONSOR:                           UAB Huntsville Regional Medical Campus   For Children/Minors (persons under 19 years of age) participating in this study, the term You addresses both the participant ("you") and the parent or [...]

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Lemierre study

August 11, 2010

As the sticky message states, we have IRB approval to conduct an interview study titled: Investigation of the Epidemiology of Lemierre's Disease If you or a child has had Lemierre's Disease and are willing to participate in this study, please read the following links.  Participation is totally voluntary.  We hope to include 100 Lemierre's patients.  [...]

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Understanding Lemierre syndrome

August 9, 2010

I have just received IRB approval on a study to help define the natural history of Lemierre syndrome.  We hope to better understand the natural history of this disease in the 21st century, as well as both the financial and personal costs that the syndrome inflicts.  I will start running an advertisement about this study [...]

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8 years of medical blogging

May 19, 2010

College and medical school took 8 years.  I have spent as much time on this blog as I did in my post high school education!  What has blogging done for me? The most important benefit of blogging has come from the discipline and repetitive experience of writing.  I have over 4000 posts!  Writing can only [...]

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“just a sore throat” is a dangerous phrase

January 29, 2010

In my pharyngitis talk, I now use the phrase "just a sore throat". A Google search on the phrase gets over 1.5 million hits.  Why is this phrase dangerous? When one studies cognitive errors, a major problem is the anchoring bias.  Anchoring or focalism is a term used in psychology to describe the common human [...]

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When blogging makes a difference

January 10, 2010

I am all smiles.  Twice this week I have received messages from ER physicians who diagnosed Lemierre syndrome.  Both of the physicians are readers and suggested that my blogging about Lemierre syndrome made a difference in their thought process. Often blogging is a selfish process.  I started blogging to help my own writing.  Blogging was [...]

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Another sad Lemierre syndrome story

January 8, 2010

Woman brings awareness A week later, the 21-year-old Florence man was dead, the victim of a rare and largely forgotten infection most people have never heard of and many doctors have never seen. His mother now is on a mission to educate doctors on the dangers of Lemierre syndrome and to save another family from [...]

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Think before treating – diagnosis matters

December 28, 2009

I have spent significant time over the past week contemplating the teaching of internal medicine.  As I spent time, a loyal reader sent me this link – Spiraling Empiricism: When in Doubt Put on Blindfold and Shoot As Congress wrestles with cost (and that is really the crux of health care reform: paying too much [...]

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Two more pharyngitis posts

December 6, 2009

Med-Peds has a very nice review of adolescent pharyngitis – The rediscovery of pharyngitis in adolescents and Arcanobacterium hemolyticum Albert Fuchs provides a nice summary of my recent article – Lemierre Syndrome: Rethinking Pharyngitis in Young Adults

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