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Internal Medicine Presentations Pasteurella Canis: A Rare Cause of Chronic Brochitits in a Patient with Intralobar Pulmonay Sequestration. Authors: Sartawi, T, Al-Bast, B, Sreedhar, R. Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Amercian Thoracic Society. May 19, 2019/ Dallas, Texas. https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2019.199…

As part of our continuing mission to provide exceptional patient experience at SIU and in tandem with Dr. Lausen’s colleague recognition program we are back with another month of positive patient experience highlights. Our May 2019 celebrated patient experience highlight comes from the Division of General/Trauma Surgery and goes to Maretta Sullivan. In the aftermath of a traumatic event, speed of care is key and an efficient, well-run clinic is vital in getting our patients on the road to recovery. Ensuring that their needs are met during times like these takes an enormous amount of work

Our April 2019 celebrated patient experience highlight comes from the Quincy Center for Family Medicine and goes to the clinic’s laboratory team for the outstanding value they provide to the clinic and to our patients. Running a high complexity laboratory requires an immense level of knowledge and expertise for monitoring test values, lab equipment, and helping our providers apply those results in direct patient care. The lab team also teaches providers how to determine what tests to order with emphasis on meeting each patient’s needs and also keeping clinic costs down. In so doing, the Quincy

As part of our continuing mission to provide exceptional patient experience at SIU Medicine, and in tandem with our Forward Together colleague recognition program, we are sharing positive patient experience highlights. Our September 2019 Patient Experience Highlight comes from the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Surgery, Colorectal Division for creating access and delivering fantastic patient care. Christopher McDowell, MD, saw a patient who was stable on Sept. 17. In collaboration with colorectal surgery, this patient was able to be seen by Prasad Poola, MD, the very

The more engineers and scientists learn about AI, the more uses are designed for it. SIU Medicine has recently advanced its problem-based learning curriculum by adding AI-driven patient simulations to years 2 through 4.

As a USPS mail carrier and mother of three, Tricia Duckworth began struggling with depression in her mid-20s. She felt tired, anxious and struggled to find a reason to get out of bed. As her symptoms progressed, she began seeing Karen Broquet, MD, a psychiatrist at SIU Medicine. Through the years, Dr. Broquet and Duckworth tried a variety of drug therapies to treat her depression. Ultimately, she was on the highest allowed dose of Effexor (venlafaxine) and could function on an interim basis. Unfortunately, the side effects were often as challenging as the depression itself. “I was treated with