Doubling down on the pharynx
A patient’s persistent sore throat highlights some of the pitfalls of modern medicine
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Cheryl, a 20-year-old Caucasian student, presents to a regional district hospital with a five-day history of odynophagia.
She has a fever but no other respiratory or systemic symptoms.