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Students USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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Kaplan USMLE Step 1 prep: Newborn has large mass over lumbar region

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. The case: Baby born at 37 weeks' gestation has a large mass over lumbar region. What’s the likeliest diagnosis?
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Students USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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Kaplan USMLE Step 2 prep: 6 cases where headache is a common symptom

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. Can you answer these questions involving headaches? Find out now.
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About Ethics

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In patient care, what is the ethical role of risk managers?

Learn how risk managers can collaborate with ethics consultants, physicians and other health professionals to properly respond to complex questions around caregiving, ethics and law.

Residents USMLE® Step 3

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Kaplan USMLE Step 3 prep: Next step for woman with hip pain

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. The case: 45-year-old with a 5-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus has hip pain. What should come next?

Public Health Behavioral Health

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Providing individualized pain care during COVID in West Virginia

Pain-management clinic works to reverse the overdose epidemic’s impact on the state by using whole-person approach to provide custom care.

Students USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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Kaplan USMLE Step 2 prep: Man with low back pain, other symptoms

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. The case: 45-year-old has low back pain that radiates to scrotum, dysuria, pain on defecation. What’s likely diagnosis?

Practice Management Digital

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Using telehealth to boost treatment for substance-use disorder

Edwin Chapman, MD, delivers multiple services at his “one-stop shopping” clinic in the nation’s capital.

Students USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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Kaplan USMLE Step 1 prep: Higher risk of cancer in which organ?

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. The case: 39-year-old woman has mild clumsiness when walking, tingling hands and feet, persistent fatigue.