Background:  The Society of Hospital Medicine considers stroke care to be a core competency in hospital medicine.  Hospitalists must be prepared to lead inpatient stroke alerts, as neurologists may not be readily available outside of academic medical centers.  However, even graduates of hospitalist training programs may report insufficient experience in leading these complex, time-pressured, high-stakes [...]

Case Presentation: A 45-year-old previously healthy male with a known history of polysubstance use (tobacco, ethanol, and cocaine) presented to the emergency department with sudden onset left-sided facial droop, hemiparesis, hemisensory loss, and dysarthria. The patient reported using cocaine twelve hours previously. On arrival, the EKG revealed complete atrial ventricular dissociation with a ventricular escape [...]

Case Presentation: We present a rare case of MoyamoyaDisease (MMD) in a 44-year-old Caucasian female with a medical history of severe recurrent headaches. She presented with an excruciating headache and was found to have right-sided facial droop, and dysarthria. Initial imaging demonstrated an intraparenchymal and intraventricular hemorrhage, along with chronic occlusions of the middle cerebral [...]

Case Presentation: A 66 year-old woman with Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (WM), hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presented with acute altered mental status. She had been diagnosed with WM by bone marrow biopsy and was treated with rituximab, then maintained on thalidomide until 2 months prior to presentation. Her mother had suffered from multiple myeloma. Vital signs were normal. [...]