Supercharge your learning and enhance your practice with this Internal Medicine Podcast featuring board certified Internists as they interview the experts to bring you clinical pearls, practice-changing knowledge, and bad puns. Doctors Matthew Watto, Paul Williams, and friends (a national network of students, residents, and clinician-educators) deliver a little knowledge food for your brain hole. Yummy! No boring lectures here, just high-value content and a healthy dose of humor. Fantastic for Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Primary Care, and Hospital Medicine.
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Show Segments
- Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
- Guest one-liner, Picks of the Week*
- Case from Kashlak; Definitions
- Differential diagnosis for GAD
- Counseling about diagnosis
- Initial guidance on first-line management, apps for mindfulness
- Prescribing basics, SSRI and SNRI considerations
- Bridging with hydroxyzine and buspirone
- Monitoring treatment response
- Managing side effects
- Tapering medication
- Alternative agents, atypical antipsychotics, and benzos
- Take Home points, Outro
- Producer, Scriptwriter, Show Notes, Infographic/Cover Art: Beth Garbitelli
- Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP, Beth Garbitelli
- Reviewer: Emi Okamoto MD
- Showrunner: Matthew Watto MD, FACP
- Production Team: PodPaste
- Guest: Dheepa Sekar MD
Sponsor: Indeed
Sponsor: Locumstory
Sponsor: Panacea Financial
Sponsor: BetterHelp
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CME Partner: VCU Health CE
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