Commentary By: Sandra D'Angelo, PGY-3
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a disease in which patients have features of alcoholic hepatitis on liver biopsy without a prior history of significant alcohol consumption and negative hepatitis serologies. It is unclear …
Posted By Robert Smith, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The patient is a 77 year old male whose chief complaint was severe left hip pain of five years duration. As part of a preoperative evaluation for hip surgery, a routine chest x-ray was obtained as …
Commentary By: Sandeep Mangalmurti, MD, JD PGY-1
For many physicians, medical malpractice is like paying taxes; inevitable, but incomprehensible. This is unfortunate, since most physicians offer unique insights into the current debate on malpractice reform. Hopefully this article will begin …
An otherwise healthy 57 year old patient presents with shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. The patient is hemodynamically stable without evidence of shock. A chest CT reveals a pulmonary embolus.
Questions: 1. When …
Chief complaint: 85 year old female presents with worsening shortness of breath for one day.
History of present illness:
The patient’s history of present illness begins at the age of 60 when she was diagnosed with asthma, for which she …
In last week’s issue of the British Medical Journal, two physicians argue about the merits of refusing to perform elective surgeries on smokers. The debate has been spurred by a primary care group in the UK who announced last year that it …
Case and Commentary by Minisha Sood PGY-3 and Ilseung Cho Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology
The patient is a 57 year-old man with a past history of hypetension, hyperlipidemia, hepatitis B/C cirrhosis and coronary artery disease status/post a non-st-elevation mi in August 2006, during …
The recent finding of decreasing breast cancer rates made headlines throughout the media; including a NY Times article entitled, Reversing Trend, Big Drop is seen in Breast Cancer on December 15, 2006.
Striking epidemiological facts …