Case Presentation: A 20-year-old male with no known medical conditions presented to the emergency department with acute right-sided chest pain and shortness of breath, which began abruptly while he was playing video games at home.  He described the pain as sharp, radiating to the back, 7/10 in severity, and worse with coughing and inspiration. He [...]

Case Presentation: A 65 year-old man was admitted to the inpatient medical service with worsening cough and dyspnea. He also reported progressive muscle weakness and myalgias over the past several weeks. His past medical history was significant for tobacco use, hypertension, hypothyroidism, and obesity. On admission, he was hemodynamically stable and afebrile with mild tachypnea [...]

Case Presentation: 65 year old female with history of rheumatoid arthritis on methotrexate and hydroxychloroquine, prior gastric ulcers on EGD, who was admitted to the hospital with bloody diarrhea, epigastric pain, acute blood loss anemia found to have duodenal ulcer. Patient received 2 units of blood products on hospitals day one and four. Course had [...]

Case Presentation: An 83-year-old female with a past medical history of COPD, CAD s/p CABG 2022, hypertension, hyperlipidemia presented to the hospital for an elective revision right hip total arthroplasty. She is on no home oxygen for her COPD and is prescribed steroids and Trelegy Ellipta by her PCP. She does not see a pulmonologist. [...]