Case Presentation: A healthy 19-year-old female presented to the emergency department with 6 days of progressively worsening fever, chills, body aches, sore throat, and a negative outpatient work-up for COVID, influenza, RSV, strep, and monospot. She appeared in acute respiratory distress, reporting new pleuritic chest pain, trismus, severe right neck pain, and tender lymphadenopathy. Her [...]

Case Presentation: A 32-year-old man with alcohol use disorder complicated by delirium tremens, who initially presented with left ankle pain, was later found to have septic arthritis. He was admitted to the ICU for alcohol withdrawal, altered mental status (AMS), and sepsis in the setting of septic arthritis, with gram-positive cocci identified on ankle aspiration. [...]