A 20 year-old college student with headache Case 17 (click here for help) A 20 year-old college student comes to student health, which you are covering on a primary care elective, during summer session with headache fever, and stiff neck for several days. She thought she was getting a cold, but for the past 36 […]
A 68-year-old man becomes forgetful Case 16 A 68-year-old man is brought to see you, his primary care physician, by family because he has taken to wandering in the street. A couple of years ago, he started becoming “forgetful,” which he and his family attributed to age. He would lose his train of thought, and
An 18 year-old student feeling dizzy and nauseated Case 15 (click here for help) An 18 year-old student, without any medical problems, is brought to the ED after passing out during band practice. She had been standing in 95 degree heat for nearly an hour when she began feeling dizzy and nauseated. She slid to
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A 20 month-old boy after a seizure. (click here for assignment help) Case 13 A 20 month-old boy is brought to the ED by his parents after a seizure. He awoke with a runny nose, and had been pulling at his right ear in the afternoon. The mother had planned to bring her child to
A 65 year-old man with dizziness (click here for help) Case 12 A 65 year-old man comes to the office with dizziness for several months. Closer questioning reveals that he has had very brief (seconds) episodes where “it feels like Iʼm on a ship.” These episodes have awakened him from sleep and he has also
A 54 year-old man with severe left facial pain click here for help A 54 year-old man complains of severe left facial pain for six months. The pain comes in “jolts” involving the left cheek. He discovered that shaving often brought on the pain, which was so severe that he grew a beard in order
A man with drooping left side of his face. Case 10(Get help) A 26 year-old man comes to clinic after waking up yesterday with drooping of the left side of his face. He had some mild aching behind the left ear when he awoke. While brushing his teeth shortly thereafter he noticed his left face
Two-week old boy with fever lethargy and irritability (Assignment help) Case 9 You are moonlighting in the ER when a two-week old boy is brought in for fever, lethargy, and irritability. He was the seven pound, two ounce product of a full term, uncomplicated pregnancy. Labor and delivery were unremarkable, and his Apgars were 8
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A 50-year-old man diabetic (Assignment help) Case 7 A 50-year-old man with diet-controlled diabetes is referred by his primary care provider for worsening pain in his feet over the past year. He describes the symptom as a constant pins and needles sensation primarily localized to the bottom of his feet, with burning pain in the
Poisoned a 44 year-old truck driver (Just click help) Case 6 A 44 year-old truck driver is brought to the emergency department by ambulance. According to his friends, he was getting up from the table after lunch then suddenly groaned, stiffened, and collapsed, with jerking movements of the arms and legs. By the time paramedics