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Your patient presents with fairly consistent pain in his low back.  He rates is at a 3/10 on verbal pain scale.  He notes that he feels the pain mostly when he is falling asleep in his bed and when he wakes up.  He feels that the firm mattress his wife makes him sleep on contributes to the pain and is the reason for the pain as this occurred about the time they got a new mattress.  He describes the pain as throbbing quality.  He notes when he extends his back the pain gets better, but sometimes can still feel the throbbing.  How would you proceed.

Pulmonary Hypertension would most likely lead to what pathology?

According to Goodman and Fuller, a treadmill test is as highly predictive of underlying cardiovascular conditions in males as what other sign/symptom?

Your patient has low serum protein. Which of the following could be a cause of their low protein?

Oxymetazoline (Afrin) and Pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) can cause increased heart rate in patients due to vasodilation.

The best description of the tricuspid valve?

The formation of granulomas leading to fibrotic tissue changes in the lungs typically can occur in ________?

If a patient’s V/Q ratio was 0.4 in a specific bronchopulmonary lung segment prior to a pulmonary embolism, what would be the most likely ratio following? (Although atelectasis can occur, in this scenario it has not occurred)

Patient is having dyspnea, and upon examination has a tracheal deviation.  What is the most likely diagnosis

A 30yo patient presents with a new complaint of productive cough with purulent sputum.  He also complains of right lower quadrant abdominal pain.  You suspect pneumonia in the _________ lobe