A rare effect of COVID-19?
Carole is a 32-year-old typist who attends for review two weeks after her first COVID–19 infection. Her acute COVID symptoms of cough, fever and myalgia…
Article Type: Case Report
The core of the problem
Lee — a 39-year-old male with a history of eczema, asthma and mild scoliosis — presents to his GP with a few weeks of worsening…
An unusual dry cough
Kwame is a 38-year-old African man who presents with a dry cough and dyspnoea on exertion for 3-4 weeks. Kwame has been on antiretroviral therapy…
Dr Meryl Broughton: What stopped the patient from seeing a doctor when the tumour broke through her skin?
A woman in her early 60s was found unconscious at home by her husband. She was having abnormal spasmodic fits involving her left side. ×…
Recurrent abdominal pain: Is an accessory culpable?
Sandra, a 41-year-old female, presents to her GP clinic with a three-week history of recurrent upper abdominal pain. The pain is variable in intensity, at…
An effect of lithium?
Gerry is a 49-year-old disability support pensioner who presents for review of thirst, polyuria and polydipsia that has been present for several years. He reports…
Dr Meryl Broughton: The patient was doomed, my surgical horror story
In the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the starship Enterprise take a trip back in time to Earth in 1986.…
Professor Max Kamien: My patient Dana and her journey into the high-end world of ENT
Due to an editorial mistake, we only published half of this article initially. It has now been updated in full below. In 2018, a 47-year-old…
A bad reaction
A seven-year-old girl, weighing 30kg, has a history of asthma, allergic rhinitis and tree nut allergy. She is at a school carnival and, while playing…
An odd cause of otalgia
Mary, a 92-year-old female, is reviewed by her GP at her nursing home with a two-week history of increasing burning right ear pain. At times,…
