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A 31 year old male patient presents with right elbow pain. He denies injury or trauma. The patient has worked on an assembly line at the nearby factory for 13 years. He reports he does repetitive work daily packing boxes and loading them onto a truck. On exam, patient presents with pain that radiates from the medial portion of the right forearm and extends into the ring and pinky fingers of the right hand. When prompted, patient reports the pain is made worse with flexion of the elbow. Based on the HPI and patient presentation, what is your presumed diagnosis. 

The generalized matching law has described the choice behavior of:

In children, fractures are more prevalent than sprains, dislocations, and strains.

A 65 year old patient presents to the ER with a one month history of left foot pain. Patient reports he has been dealing with a non-healing wound on the bottom of his left foot for over “awhile”.  States he was seen at an Urgent Care setting while on vacation and treated with a one week regimen of  “an antibiotic”. His wife is present with him and is concerned because “he just doesn’t seem to be himself”.  While assessing the patient, you note the patient is ill appearing and with mild acute distress due to discomfort.  Based on the image and information below, what is your initial diagnosis, work-up and plan of care? In addition, please include your top two differential diagnosis.  VS: Temp: 101.4; HR 101; RR: 20; Sp02: 95% RA Current Medications: Simvistatin, Metformin, Coumadin, HCTZ PMH: DM type II, HTN, A-Fib, Hyperlipidemia  

A 14 year old boy presents to the ED with left wrist pain after falling on an outstretched arm while playing football. Based on the images below, what is your diagnosis?       

Which of the four guiding principles of precision teaching captures the idea that if slow learning is observed, the program of instruction needs to be changed:

The two most common reasons for fracture nonunion are [reason1] and [reason2].

As relative rate of reinforcement ______ , the relative rate of response ______.

There are many forces and mechanisms of injury that can impact the integrity of a bone. A nightstick fracture to the ulna is an example of

Imagine a community in which jaguars feed on deer, which feed on dandelions. If this community was regulated in a top-down fashion and we removed the predator, what would you expect to happen to the populations of the other levels in the food chain?