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A 22-year-old man presents to the clinic with 1 week of urethral discharge, dysuria, and increased urinary frequency. He has a new male partner with whom he has unprotected insertive anal sex. On examination, proximal-to-distal “milking” of the urethra expresses mucopurulent discharge. Prostate exam is normal, and there is no pain, swelling, or tenderness of the epididymis. You order a urinalysis, urine culture, and urine nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis. Point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tools are not available in your clinic. While you wait for test results, which of the following antibiotics should you initiate for this patient?

The CDC recommends vaccination for all of the following groups EXCEPT:

A reasonable treatment option for acute otitis media in an adult reports a penicillin allergy, stating, “I just had a fine pink rash on my trunk,” is:

Skip lesions are usually reported during colonoscopy in:

Clinical presentation of malignant or necrotizing otitis externa usually includes:

Airflow limitation is not fully reversible with patients with COPD.

Please identify the correct range for each GOLD GradeBased upon FEV1GOLD Grade 1 – [BLANK-1]GOLD Grade 2 – [BLANK-2]GOLD Grade 3 – [BLANK-3]GOLD Grade 4 – [BLANK-4]

The genetic predisposition to emphysema involves a deficiency in:

Repeated pulmonary infections ultimately causing irreversible dilation and distortion of the bronchi results in what diagnosis?

A patient experiences asthma  daytime symptoms daily. How would you classify the patient’s asthma?