Background: Burnout is a term used to describe an extended response to psychosocial and interpersonal stressors precipitated in a work-setting.1 Although there are many aspects of burnout, those commonly identified include increased emotional exhaustion, cynical attitudes towards others, and the tendency to view oneself negatively. Medicine is a common, and well-renowned field that is heavily [...]

Background: Of the many complications associated with COVID-19 infection, hypercoagulable states with subsequent thrombosis are some of the most feared implications. When trying to uncover a potential relationship between COVID-19 infection and risk for cerebrovascular ischemic events, knowing whether there is an increased risk for these events in those with other respiratory viral pathogens at [...]

Background: COVID-19 is an emerging illness that the medical community learns more about with each passing day. As medical students go out on their rotations, they receive differing levels of education about the disease and its treatment modalities. Our study aim was to gather baseline information about the knowledge 4th-year medical students were receiving in [...]

Background: We created a website to serve as a central information relay for our local community in East Flatbush during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. We launched COVIDBrooklyn.com in March 2020 to provide a current and easy to understand resource on COVID-19. East Flatbush is a predominantly African American community, [...]

Case Presentation: An 83-year-old man presented to the hospital with eight days of shortness of breath and non-productive cough. His medical history was notable for chronic systolic heart failure, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and hypertension. A review of systems was positive for myalgia, subjective fevers, fatigue, anorexia, and unintentional weight loss of 5 pounds [...]

Case Presentation: JD is a 23 yo AA M with no prior PMH presented with fevers, rash, myalgias, chills, nausea and vomiting. The rash began three days prior to admission, began over the palms and spread to the forearms, chest and back. A couple of weeks ago, JD started selling his plasma, prior to that [...]

Case Presentation: A 50-year-old female with rheumatoid arthritis who received 6-monthly maintenance Rituxan infusions, developed COVID-19 and was hospitalized with acute hypoxic respiratory failure. She was treated with 5 days of Remdesivir and discharged with 3L supplemental oxygen to complete a 10-day course of Dexamethasone. She didn’t improve to baseline and was re-hospitalized with progressively [...]

Case Presentation: A male in his 70s with a history of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation presented to the hospital for evaluation of shortness of breath, dysgeusia, and subjective fever. His home medications were aspirin, atorvastatin, pantoprazole, apixaban, and tramadol. Physical exam on admission revealed bilaterally diminished breath sounds in addition to being tachypneic and hypoxic. His [...]

Case Presentation: A 60-year-old female with a history of diabetes and a recent diagnosis of COVID-19 four weeks ago presented to the hospital with a persistent cough, fatigue, and poor appetite. She had been discharged two weeks prior for chest pain and shortness of breath, felt to be secondary to COVID-19 induced myopericarditis. She was [...]

Case Presentation: This abstract discusses the inpatient care of a 74 year-old female who had three hospital admissions throughout 2022 with a detailed focus on the second admission. According to the patient’s discharge summary from her first admission, she was diagnosed with severe rhabdomyolysis (secondary to statin use) and acute renal failure requiring outpatient hemodialysis. [...]