This case takes place involves a pregnant patient who had a history of preeclampsia. The patient had been observed by her doctor as having high blood pressure and a trace of protein in her urine. The patient went to her…
This case involves a forty-year-old patient with a past medical history of inactive hepatitis B and hypothyroidism by Synthroid. The patient presented to the treating physician with complaints of pain on her left hip, which she experienced after she had…
This case concerns a patient who was admitted to a VA Hospital because he had poorly controlled diabetes and had persistent arm and leg weakness. An initial examination showed that the patient’s blood sugar was dangerously high and he was…
This case involves a patient who was admitted to the hospital ICU after an unintentional drug overdose. The patient had shallow breathing. The emergency room physician inserted an endotracheal tube to aid the patient’s breathing because she was comatose and…
This case involves a child who suffered severe injury to her kidney when she was born. A sonogram had shown that the baby was in the breech position before the birth and the doctor planned to deliver the baby by…
This case involves a thirty-two-year-old female who became pregnant and wished to terminate the pregnancy and induce an abortion immediately after hearing the results of a serum pregnancy test. The patient took the prescribed medical abortion pills and presented for…
This case involves a forty-five-year-old female who presented to her primary care physician’s office with complaints of a nodular lump on her breast. At the initial visit, the patient was only seen by a medical student, the physician did not…
This case involves a forty-six-year-old female patient that was evaluated at a hospital where doctors found a nodular density on a chest x-ray that projected along the right upper lung lobe. The radiology report recommended that a CT with IV…
This urologic oncology case involves a fifty-six-year-old man who was undergoing treatment for urinary frequency, nighttime urination, and occasional blood in the urine. The urologist performed a cystoscopy and diagnosed the patient with an overactive bladder and benign prostatic hypertrophy. The patient…
