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Specialties

General Internal Medicine

The undifferentiated patient, perioperative care, and everything between divisions.

Presentations

DyspneaChest painConfusion / altered mental statusFever in the hospitalAcute kidney injuryGI bleedingSyncopePalpitationsJaundicePeripheral edemaAcute joint painUnintentional weight lossFalls in the older patientShock & hypotensionHeadacheFirst seizureFocal weaknessAcute abdominal painHemoptysisBack pain with red flagsAcute diarrheaDysuriaBruising and bleedingHypoglycemiaAnemiaThrombocytopeniaRash on the ward

Ward cases

Confused, four weeks after a new tablet

A 78-year-old is brought in by her daughter, who says she has not been herself since the summer.

The surgical patient who is 'a bit agitated'

A 52-year-old man, day 2 after an emergency laparotomy, is sweating, shaking and pulling at his drain. The surgical resident is in theatre and you are covering.

Interpretation drills

Blood gasTingling fingers in the waiting roomBlood gasBreathless and thirty-two weeks

From the library

Frontal chest radiograph in viral pneumonia
A frontal chest radiograph in COVID-19 viral pneumonia.Hannover Medical School COVID-19 Image Repository (via the ieee8023 covid-chestxray-dataset) · CC BY 3.0 · source
Chest radiograph showing patchy bilateral airspace opacities of viral pneumonia
Chest radiograph in COVID-19 viral pneumonia: patchy bilateral opacities.Hannover Medical School COVID-19 Image Repository (via the ieee8023 covid-chestxray-dataset) · CC BY 3.0 · source