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A 63-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with left flank pain radiating into his chest. He had initially presented to an outside hospital and was transferred after 24 hours of observation and trending of the patient’s complete blood count, which remained stable.
In this video roundtable discussion, Carol Wysham, MD, interviews Eugene E. Wright, Jr., MD, and Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDCES, BC-ADM, about the multidisciplinary approach to managing people with comorbidies in type 2 diabetes, including cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and the importance of lifestyle changes and diabetes education.
Drs Mobolaji and Omole discuss how clinicians can take a holistic approach when caring for a patient, how to collaborate successfully with multiple disease specialists, and what they learned from working on this case.