“In one overnight shift on the orthopedics service, our team evaluated three different pediatric patients with the same underlying injury: a femoral fracture. But, the management of all three children was different and the underlying reason for the different management: age….”
Read MoreA 15-year-old female presents to your emergency department with her mother. She is tearful and withdrawn. She tells you that she was sexually assaulted by a 20 year old male acquaintance 2 days prior. She reports that she would like to report the assault and would like to have a forensic exam. She is having some vaginal bleeding and pain around her rectum. She admits to using alcohol and some marijuana on the night of the assault. She is unable to remember everything that happened and thinks her assailant may have put a drug in her drink…
Read More…The mother changed his diaper again around noontime and noted another large maroon stool. His mother brought him to the pediatrician’s office. Upon showing a picture of the stools to the pediatrician, the patient was instructed to present to the emergency department….
Read More…The patient’s history of fatigue, dyspnea on exertion, palpitations, and pale coloring can be vague when taken separately but when put together with her pale coloring and tachycardia…
Read MoreA 12 year old male presents to the ED from an outside hospital (OSH) after accidentally ingesting 3 ‘buckyballs‘ while playing with a toy just prior to arrival…
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