Serena Williams strolls into your ED complaining of right eye pain for 2 days. She tells you that her right eye started hurting 2 day ago, after a tennis ball hit her face while practicing to dominate the US Open and win…
Category: Board Review
On steroids and bored – Review
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…
Home Improvement’s Toxic and Never Bored, Review
Another busy day in the pediatric ED and Tim ‘The Tool-man’ Taylor brings in his 6yo boy who was complaining of abdominal and flank pain after drinking something in dad’s car garage. The boy said he “drank some of dad’s green garage…
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…
Pirate Baby’s Never Bored Review
It’s a busy weekday shift in the Peds ED on Jolly Roger Island. A captain brings in his 11 day old newborn scallywag, concerned about her left eye being ‘swollen, crusty, and oozing pus.’ He notes that she cries anytime he…
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…
Dazed & Confused & Bored Review
It’s a typical busy Saturday night in the main ER, with your alcoholics and K2-smokers causing a ruckus, when you pick up a 32yo woman brought in by her friend for ‘acting strange.’ You think maybe she joined the K2-bandwagon…
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”…