Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The patient is an 86 year old man who presented with weakness, lethargy and falls. His history was noteworthy for an episode of empyema nine years earlier that was managed with tube thoracostomy followed by decortication. Seven years prior to this admission, upper endoscopy revealed …
By Andrew ElDabh, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week finally concluded one of the more bizarre election seasons in American political history, as business magnate Donald Trump defeated heavy favorite Hillary Clinton in the 45th …
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated April 17, 2013
By David G. Rosenthal and Robert Gianotti, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case: A 33-year-old man comes to your clinic complaining of worsening …
By Amar Parikh, MD
Peer Reviewed
Welcome to Gamechangers, a series that takes a critical look at the latest in medical literature to answer one important question: would the results of this article …
By Nishan Bingham, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week, Ken Burns announced that he will have to remake his documentary series, Baseball, after the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the …
By Jafar Hamid Al-Mondhiry, MD, MA
Peer Reviewed
A critical care attending once told me that “learning scars†are some of our greatest teachers. And he was right. Many times, a sense of …
By:Â Aditya Sreenivasan, MD
For the Halloween edition of Primecuts, we resisted the temptation to follow the standard media trend and go exclusively with “spooky†or alarming articles. Though the subject …
Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The patient is an 86 year old man who presented with weakness, lethargy and falls. His history was noteworthy for an episode of empyema nine years earlier that was managed with tube thoracostomy followed by decortication. Seven years prior to this admission, upper endoscopy revealed …