Case in Point
Case in Point
12/13/2024
W. Clay Jackson, MD, DipTh
A 62-year-old woman presented to a palliative care clinic for follow-up of symptom management. She reported a recent fall after unexpectedly being shocked by her implantable cardioverter-defibrillator...
12/13/2024
What's The Take Home?
What's The Take Home?
12/05/2024
Ronald N. Rubin, MD
A 70-year-old man presents with lower back pain, bilateral buttock pain, and a sensation of bilateral leg weakness, most notably in the right ankle and foot.
12/05/2024
What's The Take Home?
What's The Take Home?
11/24/2024
Ronald N. Rubin, MD
The wife of a 75-year-old previously healthy man calls her internist to report her husband’s acute episode of “confusion.”
11/24/2024
Radiology Quiz
Radiology Quiz
11/19/2024
Namita Bhardwaj, MD, MS, MPH; Grant S. Pierre, MD
A 72-year-old woman presented with new-onset right hip pain. Approximately 2 weeks prior, she had fallen on her right hip while walking her dogs.
11/19/2024
Photoclinic
Photoclinic
11/18/2024
David Effron, MD; C. Clare Charbonnet, MD; Charles L. Emerman, MD; Agnieszka A. Ardelt, MD, PhD, MBA
A 66-year-old, right-handed man presented to the emergency department (ED) reporting the perception of hearing speech “in fast forward.” The perception was intermittent; episodes lasted for a few minutes...
11/18/2024
Radiology Quiz
Radiology Quiz
11/16/2024
Michael Grover, DO; Sethu Sandeep Koneru, MBBS
A 74-year-old man presented to the clinic complaining of chest pain. He described the pain as an intermittent discomfort, which was localized to the middle of the sternum without radiation.
11/16/2024
Photoclinic
Photoclinic
11/07/2024
A 63-year-old man with hypertension was prescribed amlodipine for blood pressure control. Three days after initiating treatment, he developed an extremely pruritic rash on his back.
11/07/2024
What's The Take Home?
What's The Take Home?
06/19/2024
Ronald N. Rubin, MD
A 51-year-old man who works in the delivery services industry presented with bilateral leg edema, weight loss, and fatigue. He has lost more than 4.5 kg (10 lb) in the past 4 months without dieting. In...
06/19/2024
What's The Take Home?
What's The Take Home?
05/14/2024

Ronald N. Rubin, MD1,2 Series Editor

Ronald N. Rubin, MD1,2 —Series E...
A 72-year-old man presented to the hospital for an apparent thrombotic stroke. Regarding the present illness, the patient’s history began about 3 months prior, when a friend noticed that the patient’s left...
05/14/2024
photoclinic
photoclinic
04/17/2024
Afolake Mobolaji, MD, MPH, FAAFP; Folashade S. Omole, MD, FAAFP
A 68-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with pleuritic left-sided chest pain associated with shortness of breath and a productive cough with clear sputum but no hemoptysis.
04/17/2024