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LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA – Morning report got much more interesting this week, as nephrologist David Adams fulfilled the unspoken dreams of internists around the world, as he announced that he found a new serum electrolyte to be measured.
“We had corrected a patient’s potassium, we had titrated his sodium to a normal range, and his magnesium hadn’t been flagged in days,” said Adams in his press release. “We were just drawing up his discharge work, when I asked myself, ‘What else could we be correcting?’ and that’s when I acted on instinct, drew one last sample and sent it to the Chemistry Department at our university.”
His instinct was a good one, as the chemistry team did find traces of another electrolyte not routinely measured in hospitals. And it’s because of that discovery that nephrology-inpatient Tomas Davidson’s serum tungsten level is back to a normal, healthy level. “I owe [Dr. Adams] my life,” said Davidson. “I thought I was fine; I eat healthy, I exercise regularly, but then Dr. Adams gave me the news about my tungsten… it was an eye-opener for sure.”
His bloodwork showed that Davidson’s tungsten was nearly 0.02 mmol/L below “comfort zone.” Dr. Adams and his team wasted no time in supplementing their patient with the hard metal in question, no doubt avoiding catastrophic events.
News of their discovery quickly made its way around the hospital, where internists on every team were quick to tack on serum tungsten levels to their lab requisitions. “It’s incredible,” said one internal medical resident, “you play with fluids and you correct the sodiums and the potassiums, but you always wonder what else is out there… well we don’t have to wonder anymore.”
One senior physician believes this news couldn’t come soon enough, saying that “we may have been missing these cases for years. I shudder to think how many hypotungstenemias have been overlooked on my watch.”
Dr. Adams hopes that this discovery will serve as a lesson in thoroughness to the internal medicine community. “I think sometimes we fail to see the whole patient, and that’s when we really lose the art and become robots.”
Kingsell would defs love gomerblog.
And this is all a conspiracy by Big Wolfram
Dharan Sukumar, Shannon Fadaee, Kingsell’s serum tungsten makes an appearance.
Something else we’ll have to draw stat!!!!!
Simpsons did it!
JeffSporer add some canned tuna and nonorganic spinach and you’re good to go!
Wow…who knew! :D
Going to order that tomorrow….
Jean-Maxime
T-riders? God this site cracks me up!
Nancy Miller
Highley associated with vaccinations!
Nurses everywhere roll their eyes at all the STAT T-riders ordered prior to discharge.
Mary Choe rm 8?
If I used a lead number 2 pencil to make my grocery list which included potentially Mercury exposed fish, then ate said fish with arsenic laced apple juice in a low light vitamin D deficient area would that affect my tungsten levels? If no one knows thats ok, I’ll just ask my provider tomorrow.
Must have been a real light bulb moment for this doctor.
love this !
light therapy protocol to treat might be required
This is common in severe cases of hypoplutoniumemia.
What’s next? Praseodymium? Astatine? Copernicium?
Geeeee. What ever happened to the porcelain level as a key diagnostic test???? What’s the world coming too???? Is this the new porcelain replacement test???
I hope our hospital adds a PO or IV Tungsten protocol to our K, Mg and Phos….oh the extra hours of tedium, i love it!!!
Mom always said, ” Eat your organic Himalayan tungsten “
there’s a homeopathic remedy for that …
Global warming has depleted our soil of its tungsten levels!
Will an X-ray detect tungsten? Hmm. Serum tungsten level and AP and Lateral views of wherever tungsten is stored!
Ashley Martella I especially like the allergies one!
But we all know that a normal tungsten level does not definitively exclude hypotungstenemia…
I do believe Dr Oz has been saying this for years…
paid for by Big Tungsten™
Often seen with adrenal fatigue
I hear you can improve your Tungsten levels with colloidal Molybdenum
Lmao.
Alex Nesbitt
It’s what the naturopaths have been saying for years.