Stephanie E. Moss

Sep 23, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Jessica Reeves |Tasia Isbell |Nishant Pandya |Stephanie E. Moss

My Role As ‘The Clinician In The Family’Two really common clinical scenarios. First: male, late 60s, painless hematuria, referred to urology. Cystoscopy reveals lesion on bladder wall; stage I bladder cancer. Second: female, 70, unwitnessed fall, no prodromal symptoms. ED visit two days later, incidental finding of two cerebral aneurysms but otherwise normal workup, working diagnosis: syncope.

Sep 23, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Tasia Isbell |Nishant Pandya |Stephanie E. Moss |Danielle Pigneri

The story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is a cautionary tale about the dangers of false alarms. The shepherd boy repeatedly tricks the villagers into believing a wolf is attacking his flock. When a real wolf finally appears, the villagers ignore his cries. The moral is clear: Repeated false alarms lead to skepticism and inattention when genuine danger arises. But what do you do when it is a 14-year-old girl who cried pancreatitis, and not a boy and the threat of a wolf?

Sep 23, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Nishant Pandya |Stephanie E. Moss |Danielle Pigneri |Lisa Belisle

The Patient Isn’t Sick, But We Can Still Treat the Parent“Kid’s a level 5. Fever starting six hours ago, runny nose. He’s fine.”Her three-year-old son had developed a fever and rhinorrhea that day. She was worried about an ear infection. His exam showed no signs of otitis media and we discussed how a viral upper respiratory infection likely caused his fever. “Thank god.” The heavy relief in her sigh told me there was something left unsaid.

Sep 9, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Nicholas S. Tito |Stephanie E. Moss |Debra Blaine

There are 85,000 medical malpractice lawsuits filed annually. Among them, 52,190 are summarily dropped for reasons unknown; 26,860 are settled; 1,190 result in plaintiff verdicts, and 4,760 in defense verdicts. Only 33.3% of these lawsuits are likely to have merit, while 66.7% do not. To make matters worse, only one out of every 37.5 claims reviewed by attorneys is represented, meaning that 3,102,500 other claims are abandoned for reasons known only to those attorneys.

May 24, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Caissa Troutman |Emily Kahoud |Toni Bernhard |Stephanie E. Moss

I am 47 years old and was today years old when I realized I have been going through perimenopause for the last four years. It is only with a retrospective lens that I can review my last four years and pick up intermittent symptoms or even just mild nuisance-level symptoms that I can say are likely from perimenopause. What is perimenopause? Perimenopause is the transition stage before reaching menopause, which is defined as 12 months of continuous amenorrhea (or no menstrual cycles).