Cases of the Classics
Not your average clinical vignettes.
Smokey
A patient's chest X-ray made him unforgettable.
The rise and fall of the urine eosinophil
A resident teaches an attending something about high-value kidney assessment.
Concrete thinking
An initial diagnosis of bilateral cellulitis leads to some digging and hard thinking.
Irony
An intern and an attending try to iron out a misunderstanding.
A joint approach
A case study helps explain how to differentiate gout from pseudogout.
Colica Pictonum
Ancient Rome and Flint, Mich., share a connection.
Magnificent maggots
Sometimes the best treatment plan can include an effective and simple intervention of antiquity.
The case of the undulant ungulate
A graduate student discovers the dangers of gourmet roadkill.
The wisdom of teens
Our editorial advisor learns a thing or two about diagnosis from an unusual source: his teenage son.
Arsenic and Olds Lake
Could this patient have arsenic poisoning?.
That smell
Certain diseases have characteristic odors.