Season 1 Episode 3

Chicken Soup

Air date: Jun 22, 2009

Medical Cases in This Episode

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1 case identified

Case 1

Heart Disease Self-Treatment

An elderly patient has been treating heart disease with chicken soup.

Episode shows: An elderly patient has been treating heart disease with chicken soup.
Clinical takeaway: Heart Disease Self-Treatment is included because episode evidence supports a concrete clinical, medication-safety, trauma, mental-health, infant-safety, or end-of-life scenario.

Accuracy 3.6/5heart-disease-self-treatmentemergency-nursingmedication-safety

About the Episode

An elderly patient checks in who has been treating his heart disease with chicken soup; Jackie discusses her daughter's anxiety with Dr. O'Hara; Eddie learns that he is to be replaced by a pill-dispensing machine.

Medical Relevance

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