In this article, Scott T. Vergano, MD, writes about 4 papers you may have missed in May 2022, including a rescue medication recommendation, differentiating Bell’s palsy from Lyme-related facial palsy,...
Prednisone is a prodrug. Prednisone is a glucocorticoid. Prednisone is a mineralocorticoid. But is prednisone a poison? What have patients taught us about prednisone?
We present a case on a 22-year-old college student with a pruritic rash on his mid-abdomen and ask you to make the diagnosis and treat the patient. Along the way, we'll provide details about the case,...
The old adage, “Not all that wheezes is asthma,” attributed to physician Chevalier Jackson (1865-1958), has never been more relevant than today, given reports that at least 30% of physicians’ asthma...
A 76-year-old man presented to the emergency department with concern for tongue swelling. The patient stated that he had awoken during the night and noticed that his tongue was swollen and that he was not...
An 18-year-old boy with perinatal HIV and hepatitis C coinfection, cirrhosis, coagulopathy, and chronic thrombocytopenia, presented with 4 days of cough and 2 days of right chest pain and dyspnea, but no...
