Bored with my CD4

Let’s talk about the patient with HIV, who maybe presents with a fever, and says he doesn’t know his last CD4 count but thinks it’s ‘not good.’   Reach back into that fund of knowledge you’ve perhaps suppressed from your crazy, cramming, coffee-chugging days of Step 1 & 2, and tell me Read more…

Bored and Dyspeptic

A 33 year old woman presents to your ED complaining of 4 days of “stomach pain.” She says it started after a weekend of mandatory celebratory drinking for closing a deal at her fancy finance job, and that she had been super stressed at work before the deal closed. She says Read more…