Case Presentation: A 70-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension and diabetes was sent to the emergency room by primary care physician because of persistent hypokalemia while taking oral potassium supplements. Patient reported generalized weakness, low back pain, thirty-pound weight loss and poor appetite for a few months. He smokes one packet of [...]

Case Presentation: A 83-year-old female with PMH of hypertension, type II diabetes mellitus, and prior tobacco use initially presented to the ED for generalized weakness. Initial exam was notable for hypertension and slowly healing wound on her right leg s/p mechanical fall several weeks prior. Her labs revealed hyperglycemia with serum glucose > 500 in [...]

Case Presentation: A 35-year-old female with a history of depression, psychosis, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes presented to the emergency room for severe hypokalemia found on routine labs. She was hospitalized for an episode of psychosis a month prior with a suicide attempt and was being treated at an inpatient mental health clinic since then. [...]

Case Presentation: Headache is one of the most common complaint of patients, yet over 65% of patients with tension-type headaches don’t present to their primary care doctor. When it’s not just a typical headache is when it’s imperative to make the diagnosis early to prevent detrimental complications. A 46-year-old-male presented with a chief complaint of [...]