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

Dr. Neda Frayha (@nedafrayha) of Primary Care RAP (Hippo Education) joins us this month for our thoughts and analysis of some recent (and not so recent) journal articles that interested us this month. Our articles spanned topics that include at cancer survival among patients pursuing treatment with complementary medicine, the effect of body weight on effectiveness of preventive aspirin dosing, strategies to promote physician leadership, respiratory symptoms in those with marijuana use and MRSA risk among patients with penicillin allergies. ACP members can claim free CME-MOC at acponline.com/curbsiders (goes live 0900 EST on podcast release date).

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Credits:

• Written by: Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH, Neda Frayha MD, Christopher Chiu MD
• Producers: Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH, Christopher Chiu MD
• Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, Stuart Brigham MD, Paul Williams MD, and Christopher Chiu MD
• Editor: Matthew Watto MD 

Time stamps:

• 00:00 Disclaimer, intro, guest bio
• 05:05 Do patients using complementary medicine for cancer therapy have worse outcomes?
• 13:11 Does low dose aspirin work for primary prevention of major adverse cardiac events?
• 19:16 Do physicians make better leaders?
• 24:55 Does marijuana cause respiratory symptoms?
• 30:40 Does penicillin allergy confer increased risk for C Diff and MRSA infection?
• 38:40 Wrap-up and outro

Tags:​ aspirin, cardiac risk, mortality, cancer, complementary, alternative, conventional, therapy, marijuana, cannabis, respiratory, symptoms, leader,