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Institutions should better understand invisible disabilities (opinion)

Universities and departments should provide more resources for faculty, administrators and students to better understand, identify and accommodate invisible ones, writes Zachary Clary. Just two months after I started my master’s in history program in 2021, an emergency room doctor in Columbia, S.C., reviewed my MRI scan and told me that I had multiple sclerosis: I would continue to experience progressive neurological degeneration for the rest of my life.

COVID Pro Tips from Hospitalists

email article A quarter century ago, hospitalists didn t exist. Now, these specialists in hospital medicine are managing the care of countless North American patients with COVID-19. They ve learned plenty over the past 10 months, and five from across the country shared pro tips with MedPage Today about providing optimal care. Watch Out for Atypical Presentations Physicians are taught that common things are common simple diagnoses are usually correct, said Benji Mathews, MD, a HealthPartners physician and chief of hospital medicine at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. But COVID is different, he said. If you hear hoofbeats, you are more likely to see a horse, unless you are in an evolving COVID-19 pandemic. Then it may be a zebra, said Mathews. Try to think of COVID-19 manifestations in the differential for patients with atypical manifestations of common disease.

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