By Thomas Lee
Peer Reviewed
The age-old question that every one of us has been asked at least once: Are you a cat or a dog person? The answer is subjective, …
Category: Class Act
Clinical Correlations
Are Health Care Providers PrEPared?
September 24, 2014
By Nathan King
Faculty Reviewed
Doctors are known to be some of the worst patients, and from personal experience I predict that medical students are not too far behind. That’s why when I finally found the time to take a proactive step …
To Inject, or Not to Inject: Using the Pneumococcal Vaccinations Effectively
September 19, 2014
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 …
From the Bellevue Wards: Wellens’ Syndrome Revisited
September 18, 2014 
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 …
Neoplastic Fever: Pathophysiology, Clinical Features, And Diagnostic Assessment
August 13, 2014
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 …
Chimeras Could Bridge the Gap Between Treatment and Cure Or Are They Your Silent and Deadly Twin?
August 8, 2014
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 …
If You Could Give One Piece Of Advice To A Young Doctor…
July 25, 2014
By Ali Marisa Mendelson, MD
Peer Reviewed
It was late when I left the call room on my last day as an intern in the step-down unit, and I …
Medical Etymology: Scrofula
July 18, 2014
By Sagar S. Mungekar, MD
Peer Reviewed
It was around the 300s BCE when a sow must have had her snout near Mycobacterium intercellularae, an environmental saphrophyte that …