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 A chronic cough lasts longer than

Matt, age 27, complains of severe ear pain. On examination of the outer ear, the pinna is laterally displaced and there is a green discharge in the auditory canal. What would be your MOST appropriate action?

Callie is a 24 year old college senior that has recent started having episodes of fast heart beat, dizziness, feeling like she is going to die that last about 10 minutes.  They started 2 weeks ago, she has about 1-2 of these a day, and she feels dizzy between these episodes.  She went to the ER three times in the last 2 weeks and they have ruled out cardiac and neurological causes and all of her lab work (including catecholemines) are within normal limits.  You suspect she may have:

Mr. Jones comes to your clinic with the complaint of shortness of breath, fatigue and a dull aching pain down his left arm. This is the second time it has occurred but this time it has lasted longer and so he came in. Past medical history is significant for HTN for which he is taking a diuretic and beta blocker.  You do a quick ECG and call an ambulance. Which of following ECGs is the  MOST  emergent: 

Sherri is an 48 year old Asian woman who is diabetic and was treated last week for strep throat with amoxicillin.  There is a white patchy area on her palate that is positive for candida albicans with a KOH prep. Of the following, which would be the best treatment at this time?

‘Legionnaires’ disease was coined in 1976 after a respiratory disease affected many delegates attending a convention in Philadelphia held by

Mrs. G, 52 y/o Mexican-American female, is here to review lab results.  She is overweight with no other health problems besides allergic rhinitis and some lower back pain treated last year, now resolved. Her LDL is 143, HDL is 54 and her trig level is 134. She has no family history of premature CAD. She has an estimated 10 year cardiovascular event risk of 4.5%. Your treatment plan or recommendations include:

The US definitively won the War of 1812.

Believing that the end of slavery would come sooner, many African Americans were inspired by the events surrounding

Leigh received a digital camera for her birthday. She was able to figure this product out pretty easily because it only required a moderate change in how she used to take pictures. One thing she had to get used to was printing the pictures instead of taking a roll of film to a processor. This is an example of a __________  innovation.