The Danbury Medical Files
Hello, I am Christian Espana Schmidt, MD. During my 25 years of medical career, I have witnessed changes in the medical profession. Starting as a medical student in Guatemala, Central America, where after medical school I completed my internal medicine residency, and then I served in a rural community for 6 years with innovation that persists, I went to New York City, where I repeated another internal medicine residency and was chief resident. My joy for teaching took me to Pensilvania where I learned about Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) a revolutionary technique to enhance physical examinations. I proudly started the POCUS program at Danbury Hospital. Now, I am developing the POCUS program of CIFC Health, a program dedicated exclusively to teaching POCUS in the outpatient clinic. As you can see, I already said I teach POCUS; however, I am very interested in other topics in medicine.
Of course I will continue to discuss POCUS, however I hope to dive in new topics in medicine.
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The content is not generated with AI; all content is curated, and I try to present the evidence behind my opinions.
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The Danbury Medical Files
The dream of defeating measles
In this new episode of the Danbury medical files, I share with you one of the many adventures I had with my dad Dr. Victor Espana Pinetta MD, MPH. I am trying to describe one of the multiple vaccination campaigns that he led in my home country Guatemala. After that, I have a few thoughts about the situation of the measles cases that are piling up in the United States because of lack of vaccination.
I dive also on three cases I saw of measles in kids one that led to the permanent brain damage of a girl and her likely dead after the disease.
Hope you find this episode interesting. Also, I hope you find this episode worth to be shared to other non-medical personal.
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