The life of people around the world has changed dramatically due to a pandemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease known as COVID-19, initially detected in China. At this moment, Italy, Spain and USA, are the countries with the biggest number of people with a positive test. This tsunami has Continue reading Medical Oncology and COVID-19
A 50-year-old woman without previous diseases went to the Emergency Department (ED) because in the last week she started with pain in her abdomen and vomiting after eating. She was a heavy smoker with two episodes of right ureteral lithiasis four years ago.
Continue reading Do you think it could have been done better? Abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting
“Recognizable combination of symptoms and physical signs in a defined clinical context that form a discrete chunks of information that clinicians come to recognize to typify certain diagnoses” (1). Continue reading Coronavirus Illness Script
We saw in the previous chapter the case of Mary, a woman in her early fifties, with a diagnosis of cerebral hemorrhage in relation to an aneurysm. She was saying to the doctor and to her family that she only could see a red color in her eyes. Continue reading The red color. Chapter 2
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Mary was a healthy woman in her early fifties with a diagnosis of a mild hypertension. She was a mother of four and her life was always under the routine of the family duties. But that morning, something was going to happen. Continue reading The red color. Chapter 1
When a person has a health problem , the first contact with a health facility could be your personal doctor , your general practitioner (common in socialized health services), or the Emergency Continue reading A quick communication about a first impression of the patient is a good practice
