Background: Hospitalizations related to injection drug use (IDU) are often complicated by complex psychosocial circumstances and behavioral health needs. Despite growing hospitalizations amongst this patient population, little is known about physician experience caring for these patients. Our study aims to explore physician perspectives in caring for patients with IDU to understand the impact of these [...]

Case Presentation: A 29-year-old male presented with a 1-week history of dyspnea, cough, fever, fatigue, myalgia, and chest pain. Medical history included hepatitis C and intravenous drug use with meth, heroin, and suboxone. His last use was 1 week prior to presentation with IV suboxone. Pertinent surgical history consisted of bioprosthetic mitral valve replacement x2. [...]

Case Presentation: A 47 year old white male with alcoholism and cirrhosis was admitted to the ICU after being found altered in his bedroom in a pool of blood draining from his nose. A rhino rocket was inserted into the patient’s right nostril to stop the bleed and labs and imaging were obtained. Labs revealed [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 20-year-old male who is an immigrant from Egypt with no significant medical history. He presented with recurrent fevers, chills, and dysuria for one week. He was prescribed cephalexin for a urinary tract infection at an urgent care clinic. The patient continued to have fevers and developed a dry cough [...]

Case Presentation: This is the case of a 77-year-old male who was treated for endocarditis that seeded from a chronic upper extremity wound. The patient had a history of chronic atrial fibrillation and was status post placement of an AICD pacemaker. He initially presented to a community hospital with altered mental status and was found [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 57-year-old male with a past medical history of coronary artery disease complicated by ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, status post implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) placement, as well as recently relapsed intravenous heroin use disorder. He was admitted for replacement of his ICD battery [...]