Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The patient is a 72 year old man who presented with an incidentally noted right mid-lung density on a chest radiograph. The patient was asymptomatic at the time and was begun on empiric treatment with moxifloxacin, then a course of amoxicillin-clavulanate for a presumed pneumonia …
By Nicole Massucci, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week, President Trump embarks on a two-week trip visiting 5 Asian countries in hopes of rallying efforts to increase pressure on North Korea (1). The trip comes …
In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Clinical Correlations we are presenting a wonderful 4 part series of life as a house officer at Bellevue Hospital in the 60’s, …
You have always been told to do a diagnostic paracentesis on admission in cirrhotics with ascites, but why? Can you just get away with clinical judgment to rule out SBP? …
By Ian Yarrett, MD
Peer Reviewed
As uncertainty continues to swirl around the future of Obamacare and the stability of the nation’s health insurance markets [1], President Trump took a promising step …
By Sara Stream, MD
Peer Reviewed
As resident physicians, we are taught to supplement serum potassium to a goal level of 4.0 mEq/L in all hospitalized patients. While the dangers of severe potassium abnormalities are …
By Jennifer Riggs, MD
Peer Reviewed
The NBA season literally got off on the wrong foot last week as Celtics player Gordon Hayward suffered a broken ankle in the league’s opening game …
In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Clinical Correlations over the next four weeks we are presenting a wonderful 4 part series of life as a house officer …