By Jennifer S. Mulliken, M.D.
Peer Reviewed
Case Report
A 45-year-old man with a history of mild intermittent asthma presented with two days of right knee pain and swelling accompanied by subjective fevers, shaking chills, and night sweats. He also reported …
By Cindy Fei, MD
Peer Reviewed
Iron deficiency is the most common cause of anemia in the United States. Despite this, there are a multitude of questions surrounding the best choice of …
By Shilpa Mukunda, MD
Peer Reviewed
On my first day on inpatient medicine at the VA Hospital, Mr. P came in with an oozing foot ulcer. Mr. P, a 60-year-old man with …
By Dana Zalkin
Peer Reviewed
A code is called on the overhead speaker and the on-call teams rush to the scene to see what awaits them. EKG leads are being placed, medications …
By Michael Lee, MD
Peer Reviewed
Clinical Case: Ms. A, an 84-year-old retired physician with a history of bronchiectasis of unclear etiology, is admitted with the chief complaint of chronic cough. Further …
By Joseph Plaksin
Peer Reviewed
Falls are a major health problem for older adults. Various reviews and meta-analyses have estimated that 30% of people over age 65 [4,6,8,10,11,13,14,19,21,22,23] and 50% of people over age 85 [14] who live in the …
By Cindy Fang, MD
Peer Reviewed
“A wonderful instrument…is now in complete vogue in Paris…It is quite a fashion, if a person complains of cough, to have recourse to …
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated November 23, 2011
By Ishmeal Bradley, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The goal of public health is to prevent or minimize disease and injury on …