Our winner is the illustrious ablumenberg! For the initial presentation, see here. In brief, we have a gorilla of an acid-base question with pertinent history including a history of diabetes and alcohol abuse. This one’s a little long, so put on…
It’s an eerily quiet morning in the ED when in comes a vomiting patient… The (Made-Up) Case 48 year old M, pmhx DM, chronic/heavy drinker, presents with 4 days of NBNB vomiting. He hasn’t taken his diabetes medication during this…
Want to re-read the case before checking out the answer? See it here The Answer Back To Fun Med School Pathophys Two centers of language are Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area. To put it simply, Wernicke’s is responsible…
This is a fictitious patient seen at a fictitious hospital called Janus General. Don’t believe me? I’m on staff there – see The Case… It’s 4 AM and the ER is starting to be an even split between etoh intox,…
Thanks for the variety of responses. The winner of course is ablumenberg thanks to his thorough differential diagnosis. The Case In short, we have a 54 yo male with ptosis x 2 weeks and no other symptoms or complaints. …
This is a fictitious patient seen at a fictitious hospital called Janus General. Don’t believe me? I’m on staff there – see 54 yo male, past medical history HTN, sent by his primary doctor to the ED for “rule…
Thanks to our own ablumenberg for his 3 responses! I applaud your effort and thoroughness…though you were not entirely correct, you were the only one to answer. So you WIN! To review some pertinent facts of the case, we had…
This is a fictitious patient seen at a fictitious hospital called Janus General. Don’t believe me? I’m on staff there – see After seeing your 44th URI of the day in the Peds ER, you get a call on the…