A 25-year-old male without significant past medical history presented to the emergency department with severe bilateral eye pain, as well as associated “gritty” feeling in his eyes. At the onset of symptoms, he also had photophobia and tearing...
Read MoreAn otherwise healthy 3-year-old boy presented to the emergency department, accompanied by his father, for concern of aural foreign body. The patient was playing outside near his family’s gravel driveway and the father witnessed him place a pebble in his ear…
Read MoreA 45-year-old male presents to the emergency department with a chief complaint of a fishhook injury. He was fishing on the beach this morning and caught a large fish. When he attempted to unhook the fish, he accidentally embedded the fishhook into his left hand. He attempted to remove the hook unsuccessfully prior to arrival. His tetanus status is…
Read More“A 28-year-old female presents to the emergency department for a chief complaint of finger pain after getting her hand caught in her car door. She presents with pain and blueish discoloration to the proximal aspect of the right thumb fingernail…”
Read MoreOn one of the last nights of my orthopedic rotation of intern year, I saw a 92-year-old lady who had fallen down two stairs at home…
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