A 29 year old female with a history of a congenital endocrinological deficiency (on chronic hormonal replacement therapy) is brought into your critical care area as a “sepsis code”. She tells you that for the past week she has had…
Author: Itamar Goldstein
Resident in the combined Emergency and Internal Medicine program at Kings County Hospital and Downstate Medical Center.
Curb you boredom – Review
You pick up a 65 year old man with no known past medical history and a chief complaint of cough and fever for three days. On physical exam you find a slightly confused man with an unhealthy obsession with Larry David, who is febrile…
Depressed? No, Bored – Review.
A 32 year old local hipster who thinks he’s so “cool” that even his depression is atypical rolls in to the ED on his hand built, 1950’s soviet scooter complaining of a severe, acute onset occipital headache. He tells you that…
Burrowed Review
A 42 year old, HIV positive man (not on HAART therapy) is brought in by his brother because “the skin on his head is turning into smelly frosting”. The patient’s brother tells you that he too has had “the itch”…
Thought I was bored until I stopped drinking – Review
A 32 year old woman rolls into the ER on a quiet springtime afternoon – you are told that she had just had a tonic clonic seizure. She took a sabbatical after finishing her EM/IM residency and opened a moonshine…
Too nice outside to be a storm; definitely too nice outside to be Bored — Review
A 52 year old man is brought in by EMS with complaints of altered mental status. Family says that he has been recently feeling palpitations and diaphoresis and collapsed in his chair today. On further questioning you gather that the patient has always…