Volume 53 - Issue 11 - November 2013

It’s that time of year again! The holidays are around the corner and soon your patients will be faced with temptation in the form of pumpkin pie, deep-fried turkey, and eggnog.

This 57-year-old male presented with a two-day history of rash on his hands and arms after being treated with a sinus infection with doxycycline.

This 47-year-old female presented for evaluation of an asymptomatic pigmented eruption on her volar right wrist of only a 4 week duration. She denies any new exposure history.

A 20-year-old Caucasian male presents to the clinic with a 1 year history of recurrent pruritic irritable patches.

A 74-year-old female with a history of polymyalgia rheumatica and hypertension presented with bilateral foot and hand rash that developed over two days.

A 44-year-old male presents to the emergency department with a 3-week history of rash on his left foot.

Our November 2013 Letters to the Editor, and responses.

As practitioners, the reality is that after the dusts settles and the next political issue pushes this topic off the front burner, the primary care field will be responsible for implementing many of the...

Here, the authors present an algorithm that can be used to help identify the cause of a patient’s fatigue.

Today there is growing evidence about the different systemic manifestations associated with psoriasis that causes an increase in morbidity but also mortality.

A 16-year-old boy presented to the pediatric emergency department with a 1-day history of progressively worsening neck and chest pain.

A 46 year-old white male patient presented to the hospital with fatigue and dyspnea.

This event brought together a mix of physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants for a look at the four pillars of cardiometabolic risk—diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. For...

Physicians today have several options when selecting the best iron supplements for their patients. In the past, oral iron was considered the gold standard, but with new safer parenteral iron supplements on...

A 64-year-old white male was admitted to the hospital with right leg swelling, severe pain, fevers, and chills.

I found the name of the patient, my accuser at the top of the document. After what seemed like forever, I found the accusation buried in the letter’s legal lexicon. The claim was that, in the course of...

A 57-year-old white male with a history of diabetes and hypertension presents with a 3-month ulcer on his left, plantar foot.