Medicine Morning Report

Raj Dasgupta is Raj Dasgupta is associate professor of clinical medicine, division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine and is the associate program director of Internal Medicine residency program. He actively teaches USMLE Step 1, 2, 3, and Internal Medicine Board Review around the world for the past 15 years through Kaplan and other organizations and institutions. He has appeared on various media outlets and television shows such as The Doctors, KTLA and Larry King Now. R. Michelle Koolaee is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at University of Southern California - Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.

• 1. A 63-Year-Old Female With Change in Mental Status and Slurred Speech 2. A 61-Year-Old Male With Constipation 3. A 37-Year-Old Female With a Palpable Breast Mass 4. A 65-Year-Old Male With Acute Chest Pain 5. A 31-Year-Old Male With Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Cough, and Shortness of Breath 6. A 54-Year-Old Male With Worsening Weakness 7. A 56-Year-Old Male With 3 Weeks of Fever 8. A 25-Year-Old Female With Polyuria and Polydipsia 9. A 22-Year-Old Female With Joint Pain 10. A 52-Year-Old Female With Helicobacter pylori Infection 11. A 69-Year-Old Male With “Congestive Heart Failure” 12. A 68-Year-Old Male With Weakness and Fatigue 13. A 65-Year-Old Male With Dysphagia 14. A 60-Year-Old Male With Acute Headache and Fever 15. A 66-Year-Old Male With Progressive Dyspnea on Exertion 16. A 26-Year-Old Female With Joint Pain 17. A 57-Year-Old Male With Blurred Vision 18. A 52-Year-Old Male With Radiating Leg Pain 19. A 78-Year-Old Male With Palpitations and Lightheadedness 20. A 56-Year-Old Male With Acute Cough and Fever 21. A 34-Year-Old Female With Left Lower Extremity Edema 22. A 25-Year-Old Male With Seizures 23. A 58-Year-Old Female With Dyspnea on Exertion and Renal Failure 24. A 46-Year-Old Male Referred for Hyperglycemia 25. A 23-Year-Old Female With Dysuria 26. A 40-Year-Old Female With Headaches 27. A 35-Year-Old Male With Substernal Chest Pain 28. A 62-Year-Old Male With Dyspnea at Rest and Lower Extremity Edema 29. A 34-Year-Old Male With Chronic Bilateral Gluteal Pains 30. A 20-Year-Old Female With Polyuria and Polydipsia 31. A 76-Year-Old Female With Eye Pain and Decreased Vision 32. A 43-Year-Old Male With Left Leg Erythema and Pain 33. A 25-Year-Old Female With Excessive Daytime Sleepiness 34. A 31-Year-Old Female With a Systolic Heart Murmur 35. A 57-Year-Old Male With Shortness of Breath 36. A 68-Year-Old Male With Right Knee Pain 37. A 56-Year-Old Male With Chronic Diarrhea 38. A 32-Year-Old Female With Bilateral Hand Numbness 39. A 22-Year-Old Male With Hematuria 40. A 54-Year-Old Male With Chronic Cough and Weight Loss 41. A 57-Year-Old Male With Exertional Chest Pain 42. A 45-Year-Old Female With Fatigue and Headache 43. A 43-Year-Old Male With Worsening Abdominal Distention, Fever, and Abdominal Pain 44. A 28-Year-Old Female With Difficult-to-Control Hypertension 45. A 35-Year-Old Female With Subacute Progressive Bilateral Lower Extremity Edema 46. A 40-Year-Old Female With Facial Rash and Persistent Cough 47. A 63-Year-Old Male With Acute Polyarticular Arthritis 48. A 67-Year-Old Male With Syncope 49. A 63-Year-Old Male With a Unilateral Pleural Effusion 50. A 55-Year-Old Male With Hand Tremors 51. A 35-Year-Old Male With Fatigue and Rash 52. A 45-Year-Old Female With Nausea, Vomiting, and Abdominal Pain 53. A 57-Year-Old Female With Cavitary Lung Lesions 54. A 40-Year-Old Female With Weight Gain and Amenorrhea 55. A 58-Year-Old Male With Chest Pain 56. A 70-Year-Old Male With Iron Deficiency Anemia 57. A 56-Year-Old Male With Cough and Shortness of Breath 58. A 55-Year-Old Male With Diabetes on an Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitor 59. A 34-Year-Old Male With Generalized Weakness 60. A 65-Year-Old Male With Muscle Weakness 61. A 43-Year-Old Female With Fevers 62. A 54-Year-Old Male Who “Stops Breathing at Night” Appendix 1 Questions Appendix 2 Answers Index

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