Background: The COVID-19 crisis has put an unprecedented strain on the US healthcare system (1). Hospital Medicine (HM) has been on the front lines of the crisis response (2). Multiple surges and troughs are expected before the pandemic subsides with a very large surge predicted for the winter of 2020-2021 (3). As the HM service [...]

Case Presentation: A 73 year old female presented with acute onset of recurrent falls lasting for 1 week. On day 2 of her hospitalization, hematuria with dysuria was present, which was treated as an UTI. Physical examination revealed progressive ascending weakness from lower to upper extremities with decreased reflexes bilaterally. She also developed urinary retention [...]