Umer Feroze Malik, MD; James Saffier, MD; Sheela Kapre, MD; Mersadies R. Martin, MS
<p><span class="article-text"><span>A 63-year-old man complained of sudden dizziness and dyspnea while sitting at his desk at work. His coworker called an ambulance. On...
<p>When removing sutures that are tight or for any reason difficult to get scissors under, I use a No. 11–blade scalpel, with the blunt side down and the sharp side up beneath the suture to be...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Although children can usually inhale very well during lung auscultation, typically they do not exhale sufficiently. I ask them to “breathe in real big...
<p>When a patient with iron deficiency anemia fails to respond to oral iron supplementation, consider whether foods he or she is consuming may be contributing to malabsorption. Such foods include...
<p>Here is a common clinical scenario. Your patient was admitted to the hospital with an acute myocardial infarction (MI). Intervention has been successful, and the patient's condition is now...
<p><span class="article-text"><span>Starting insulin pump therapy is essentially the same in all patients. Once you have selected a pump, contact the manufacturer. All pump...
In the second part of this 2-part series, the author describes the various treatments, with emphasis on those that are typically used in the primary care setting. In part 1, the author addressed the...
