By Daniel Gratch, MD
Peer Reviewed
In 150 AD, Greek physician and philosopher Galen wrote of a woman suffering from insomnia: “I was convinced the woman was afflicted not by a bodily disease, but rather that …
Category: Bedside Rounds
Clinical Correlations
Bedside Rounds: How Useful are the Kernig and Brudzinski signs for Predicting Meningitis?
April 27, 2016
By Chio Yokose, MD
Peer Reviewed
Even in this era of modern medicine, bacterial meningitis remains a widely feared diagnosis in both resource-rich and -poor settings worldwide. Bacterial meningitis is among the ten most common infectious …
Lies My Patients Told Me: “I Take My Medications Every Day.”
January 15, 2016
By Rebecca Sussman
Peer Reviewed
Reviewing medical evidence has become such a habit that sometimes it feels almost impossible to think independently. I’ve always been a top-down thinker; I go with my gut instinct, and …
The Blue Phone and the Bow-Tie
March 14, 2014
By Joseph Zakhar
Peer Reviewed
The Patient:
Fate is the sound of a ringing phone.
I, however, am growing to hate the sound.
I’m strangled by the words, by the rough sheets, the silence as a …
Happy New Year!!
December 31, 2013
As we reach the end of another year, we want to wish all our readers a very happy and healthy New Year. And not to be outdone by …
The Diagonal Earlobe Crease: Historical Trivia or a Useful Sign of Coronary Artery Disease?
November 2, 2011
Nicholas Mark, MD & Sarah Buckley, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Background
Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, emperor of Rome (117-138 CE), traveler, warrior, and lover of all things Greek, fell ill at the age of 60. He developed progressive edema and episodic epistaxis, …
The Stories My Senses Tell Me
May 20, 2011
By David Ellenberg
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Mr. A is a 91 year old male with a history of hypertension and two myocardial infarctions. He presented with shortness of breath and worsening lower extremity swelling and was subsequently …
Tsunamigenesis and Korotkoff’s Sounds
January 26, 2011
By Irene Isabel Payad Lim, MD and Michael Ford, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The February 27, 2010 earthquake in Chile measured 8.8 on the Richter scale and displaced nearly 2 million …