By Amar Parikh, MD
I recently visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art and stumbled across this sculpture called “Woman of Venice II†by Alberto Giacometti. It made me recall an experience I had with a patient on the hematology service this past autumn, and I could not help but marvel at …
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 …
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 …