Patients with complex needs — serious mental and physical health problems and substance use disorders — flock to emergency rooms…
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Erratum to ‘Don’t Move a Muscle: A Case of Diabetic Myonecrosis’
The publisher regrets that updated figures for this case report were not included in the published article. 1 See below…
Case 32-2019: A 70-Year-Old Woman with Rapidly Progressive Ataxia
Presentation of Case. Dr. Kun-Wei Song (Neurology): A 70-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of rapidly progressive ataxia.…
Think First, Cut Last — Lessons from a Clinical Trial of Refractory Heartburn
Conceptualizing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) as a single disease process that will respond to higher and higher doses of acid…
Calcinosis in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
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Atrophic Glossitis
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Preexisting Conditions
Doc gets these calls more often now, cries for help from family and friends. They call him, he says, because…
Randomized Trial of Medical versus Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heartburn
In the United States, approximately 20% of adults regularly have symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and annual costs for…
Democratizing Evidence Production — A 51-Year-Old Man with Sudden Onset of Dense Hemiparesis
In 2015, a 51-year-old farmer, Mr. K. arrived at the Jan Swasthya Sahyog hospital — an approximately 100-bed hospital in…
Lipid Management for the Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
In 1961, the investigators involved in the Framingham Heart Study identified serum cholesterol as one of the “factors of risk”…