- patient frustrated with the wait time (this is actually a not-so-amazing thing the human mind does when something's wrong...)
- skin grafts
- screws bulging under the skin of old internal fixations
- inverted T wave on ECG (cardiac ischemia)
- arcus
- excessive bony transverse processes in cervical spine compressing nerve roots (shooting arm pain)
- omega-3 FA deficiency
- polycystic kidney disease
- glossitis
- puncture wound to foot
- fibromyalgia
- cherry angiomas
- polypharmacy causing fatigue
- sarcoidosis
- Bell's palsy
- possible new Ehlers-Danlos diagnosis?
- diabetes mellitus (type II)
- recurrent UTI
- diabetic neuropathy: hyperesthesia in hands and feet, anesthesia in feet
- pitting edema
- enlarged tonsil (making the uvula deviate)
- femoral bruits
- hemiplegic migraine
- mild clubbing
I also wrote my first two prescriptions! (I didn't sign them; that would be illegal...so maybe we should say they weren't my first two prescriptions. But the drug, dose, number, and sig were all in my handwriting!) Wow, what an experience.
I've never seen a tonsil so enlarged that it deviates the uvula. O_o
ReplyDeleteMy most interesting cases so far are:
1) a 32-y-old male with RHD that damages three of his cardiac valves
2) a 50-y-old female admitted with unexplained bleeding and severe thrombocytopenia (8,000 cells/ul) who turns out to have M3 leukemia (WBC count keeps rising to over 50,000 cells/ul during hospital stay)
3) CNS toxo in a 40-something-y-old male with AIDS
Also, the cardio clinic has successfully made me ECG-literate :p