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A 20 years old male previously in good health presented with a history of bouts of cough from the last week. The cough was associated with a low-grade fever but got settled after two days. It was not associated with any specific posture or day-night variation. The patient denied any history of shortness of breath,...
September 25, 2019 · 2 min read
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A 36 years of age female patient was brought to the hospital with rapid weight gain. The patient is an unmarried female with a history of the polycystic ovarian syndrome (and menstrual irregularities). She had been obese since teenage that resulted in depression and psychosocial issues like fatigue, somnolence, staying at home most of the...
August 13, 2019 · 4 min read
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Gangrene is the death of a viable body part due to a lack of blood supply (dry gangrene) or secondary to an infection (wet gangrene). The cardinal signs of reduced blood supply to the limbs are pain pallor paraesthesias perishingly cold pulselessness and paralysis A short story of a baby with digital gangrene… Here is...
December 13, 2018 · 3 min read
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Voice of a lady doctor – a voice of all lady doctors … In the middle of an ER, walking on the bloodstained floor among the chaotic crowd as the ONLY female doctor on call, I still remember how I was being shouted upon by this mob of drunk boys whose partner was injured (during...
October 5, 2018 · 4 min read
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In this article, I’m not going to write about what Doctors go through during the days before med school then all the way through Post-Graduate training, etc. That has been said a 1000 times in 1000 different ways. Those of you who can understand needs not to read or hear that again. I rather decided to...
September 14, 2018 · 9 min read
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Brittle diabetes as the name suggests is the wide variation in blood sugars after a minute change in insulin dose. An increase in one or two units can cause hypoglycemia and vice versa i.e. marked hyperglycemia with a slight decrease in insulin. Brittle diabetes almost always occurs in type 1 diabetes but can also be...
July 9, 2018 · 3 min read
