By Luke O’Donnell, MD
Peer reviewed
Once formidable diseases, pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis are all now considered “bread-and-butter” internal medicine. Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the major pathogens …
By Luke O’Donnell, MD
Peer reviewed
Once formidable diseases, pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis are all now considered “bread-and-butter” internal medicine. Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the major pathogens …
By Matthew Shou Lun Lee, MD
Peer Reviewed
Clinical Questions
-How common are elevated cardiac enzymes during Wellens’ syndrome?
-Can the EKG changes in Wellens’ syndrome be found with other causes?
Background
This post represents a follow-up to …
By David Kudlowitz, MD
Peer Reviewed
Neoplastic fever (aka tumor fever) is a challenging yet essential clinical diagnosis. In fevers of unknown origin, studies estimate that the incidence of neoplastic fever is anywhere from …
By Pritha Subramanyam
Peer Reviewed
Mrs. CS is a 66-year-old Indian female who presents for a cardiology follow-up. The patient has a history of mitral regurgitation secondary to rheumatic fever she …
By Ali Marisa Mendelson, MD
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It was late when I left the call room on my last day as an intern in the step-down unit, and I hesitated before entering the stairwell. …
By Sagar S. Mungekar, MD
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It was around the 300s BCE when a sow must have had her snout near Mycobacterium intercellularae, an environmental saphrophyte that lives in soil …
By Aditya K. Sreenivasan
Peer Reviewed
The Huffington Post recently publicized a large study on the health habits of doctors. The study, a survey done by Medscape with 31,399 participants, revealed that more than half …
By David Kudlowitz, MD
Peer Reviewed
Whether assessing for a Babinski[1] sign, listening to Korotkoff sounds, or diagnosing Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome, we are surrounded by names of the medical greats in day-to-day medical practice. Medical …