23 year old dude was walking in his neighborhood, listening to the latest Pitbull jam, when a domesticated unleashed dog attacks him. Vitals are normal. Musical taste is questionable. He has a few abrasions and small lacerations on his lower leg,…
Category: Board Review
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…
An Open Book and still not Bored Review
EMS brings in a trauma notification: 40 year old man was so absorbed reading his book (51 Shades of Grey’s Anatomy) while crossing the street that he didn’t see the truck that struck him. He is moaning in pain and lethargic as…
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…
Too Classic a Question to Be Bored Review
A patient with long-standing alcoholic cirrhosis presents to your ER with altered mental status…or fever….or abdominal pain… or new onset ascites. He reports this is his normal skin color. He also reports his wife’s hair is always 4 feet tall and…
Clever Title Bored Review
A 65 year old man with htn presents after being woken up from sleep with trouble breathing. His breathing improved after he sat up, but he is still complaining of tongue swelling. On exam, he has poor dentition, fullness to…
Ear lacks? Definitely not Bored Review
A red-headed Auror presents after suffering an ear injury in a duel with one of the few remaining death eaters. He reports bleeding from the ear after being hit with “Secumsempra” (Don’t get any of these references? Seriously?!?!? See…
Still Too Scary a Case to be Bored Review
To continue discussing the chest pain patient from last week…(you remember, the syphilitic patient with Turner Syndrome who presents with tearing chest and epigastric pain radiating to the back with unequal upper extremity blood pressures, a pulseless leg, neurologic deficits)…