Background: Discharges against medical advice (AMA) account for 0.8-2.2% of all national discharges and represents an extreme in non-compliance. Patients who elect to leave AMA have increased rates of mortality, morbidity and readmission rates. Literature on this topic, to date, has focused on AMA in the context of specific admitting diagnoses or discharges from certain […]

Case Presentation: A 51‐year‐old man presents to the emergency department with shortness of breath for 2 days. In 2008, 4 years prior to presentation, the patient had a red papular 4‐cm painful mass on the medial fourth digit of his right foot. The mass was resected, and biopsy revealed moderate to well‐differentiated invasive adenocarcinoma with […]