An 18-year-old male presents from a boxing match with right external ear pain and swelling after being struck in the head…
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A 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…
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A 21-year-old male presents with pain, swelling, and obvious deformity to his right elbow after falling on his outstretched right hand while taking a turn too sharply on his motorcycle…
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A 75-year-old-female with a past medical history of dementia, diaphragm dysfunction, OSA on CPAP, presents to the Emergency Department for a fall. She is not on any blood thinning medications. Patient was found in the basement by her husband who believes she tripped over her oxygen tubing…
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On 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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