Decipher This: 85 yo F with PMH MMP incl. AF on coumadin, CAD s/p MI x2, 3v CABG (LIMA -> LAD, SVG -> OM, circ), MR s/p St. Judes MVR, DM, CHF, COPD on 2L home O2, OSA, PVD s/p R -> L fem-fem bypass, admitted with confusion and left-sided weakness after fall couple days […]
Aha! I Feel Vindicated.
Vindicated! In a recent post, I took aim at a BusinessWeek article and site comments that insinuated that women doctors were a waste of money using the changing scope of medicine as their proof. I countered that those same changes were very much welcomed by the young men in medicine as well and that the […]
Women Doctors: Waste of Money? I think not!
A friend forwarded me an article from the British Medical Journal titled “Are There Too Many Female Medical Graduates? Yes”. My friend is a Ghanaian woman who is in the research years of an MD/PhD degree at Harvard. She was none too pleased. I didn’t get riled up because objectively the points raised are grossly true. […]
Clinical Case – Herpes Zoster
I am on the inpatient ward of the Fevers Unit of Korle-Bu Hospital in Accra, Ghana. The patient is a woman in her forties. She presented with a 3 day history of a vesicular rash on her lower back, right lateral thigh, and perineum. The rash was preceded by 2 days of pain in the […]
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