Case Presentation: Many patients are being treated with biologic therapies for autoimmune diseases in the outpatient setting. It is critical for the hospitalist to recognize these patients as immunosuppressed and generate a broad differential when they are admitted to the hospital. The patient in this case was a 35-year-old male with a past medical history [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 29-year-old female twenty weeks pregnant that presents after a positive tissue culture for blastomycosis. The patient reported symptoms that started with a few days of upper right back pain and shortness of breath, similar complaints to pneumonia symptoms the patient had in the past. The patient was prescribed azithromycin [...]

Case Presentation: A 67-year-old male with a history of hypertension, asthma, and ulcerative colitis status post-colectomy presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with a month-long history of malaise, cough, shortness of breath, and subjective fevers. Despite multiple visits to urgent care, where he received antibiotics and steroids, his symptoms persisted. On ED arrival, the patient [...]