Urologic Emergencies

Urologic Emergencies

This episode covers 8 key pediatric urologic emergencies including  testicular torsion, paraphimosis, disorders of sexual differentiation, nephrolithiasis antenatal hydronephrosis, incarcerated inguinal hernias, hydroceles, and major abdominal birth defects. This episode was written by Mark Assmus and Dr. Peter Metcalfe. Mark Assmus is a medical student at the University of Alberta. Dr. Peter Metcalfe is a Pediatric Urologist at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Such a request for a white physician cannot be evaluated without taking into account the history of racial relations in American medicine. In 2008, the American Medical Association (AMA) apologized for its history of discrimination against black physicians.1 The apology came after more than a century of discriminatory practices