Volume 56 - Issue 2 - February 2016

A 42-year-old African American man with no past medical history presented with isolated worsening back pain at the lumbosacral spine with no radiation for 6 to 7 months.

A 44-year-old man presented to an urgent care clinic in Western Iowa with a complaint of generalized fatigue, malaise, and subjective fevers of 3 weeks’ duration.

A 61-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 1-day history of burning abdominal pain, nausea, and 11 episodes of nonbloody emesis.

A 25-year-old man presented with a 4-day history of sudden pain in the left lower quadrant, leading to the primary care provider's initial diagnosis of diverticulitis.

In modern health care facilities, medical ethics are embedded into the complexities of the clinical decision-making process.

A 68-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 2-day history of nausea, watery diarrhea, loss of appetite, weakness, and dizziness.

Patients with active cancer are at an increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE), which is a cause of significant morbidity and mortality.

Lupus pernio is a disease in which abnormal groupings of inflammatory cells can form in multiple organs of the body.

A 7-year-old girl was brought to the emergency department because of moderate pain on swallowing and mild upper abdominal discomfort.

A woman with a known heart murmur was diagnosed with stage C1 aortic stenosis (AS).

A 75-year-old man presented with a sudden onset of blisters on his anterior proximal thighs and on his left arm but not on his right arm.

A 48-year-old woman presented with a 2-month history of small pruritic blisters on her palms and soles.

After having been outdoors in July, a 35-year-old man presented with a sudden onset of itchy blisters confined to both feet and lower legs.

In case 1, a 16-year-old, otherwise healthy African American adolescent presented to the emergency department (ED) with her grandmother.

The inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics for symptoms of rhinosinusitis is prevalent in the United States.

Some patients with advanced cancer experience symptoms for which pharmacologic management, including cancer therapies, offers little or no relief.

Having worked as a primary care nurse practitioner (NP) for the past 20 years, as well as having just completed my doctoral work on advanced care planning, I was dismayed upon reading Drs Weinberg and...

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