RLQ Pain in Pregnancy (the sequel)
A few weeks ago Rob Orman (ER Cast) did a great interview with Dr Ingrid Lim at ACEP which looked at the diagnosis of the...
Managing Traumatic bleeding: how can we apply the evidence in smaller hospitals?
OK after Clinical Case 031 I was inspired to go out and slog through the literature and try to discover what is “best practice” for traumatic...
Undiagnose, Unprescribe, Unharm – part I
This is hopefully the first post in a series of posts looking at the concept of “undiagnosing” patients. This might sound a bit daft, but...
Fits, faints, funny turns and fakers. Prolactin to the rescue….NOT
My colleague (Dr Dave) asked me today about the use of a serum prolactin level to diagnose a seizure in a patient presenting with “syncope...
Clinical Case 021: Pregnant and puking
Had an interesting case this week. 25 yo G3P2 presented after about 6 weeks amenorrhea with typical sxs of early pregnancy – breast tenderness, nausea...