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Patient comes into the Emergency Room with a chief complaint of swelling and extreme pain in the left leg. After awaiting triage, the patient is finally seen by the physician. Temperature 96.8˚F, Heart Rate 129 beats per minute, Blood Pressure 102/60, Respiratory Rate 23, SPO2 100% on room air. Upon examination of his left leg, it is undeniably blue in color with significant swelling as compared to the right. Superficial veins are noticeably distended and the leg is cool to the touch. A Duplex…

The medical community has been a large influence in my life quite literally since birth. I attended my father’s college graduation as a young child and studied with him throughout medical school. We ate pizza together while I learned fractions. He would hand me a slice, put the box back up on the cadaver and continue studying for gross anatomy. I always wanted to “join the family business,” but time and time again my father would have to explain how it doesn’t quite work that way. By the time I…

The treatment of Australia’s Indigenous community is horrific. Indigenous Australians lived on this land for thousands of years before the white European settlers came and took their land along with their lives. Since the settlers arrived they have been treated like animals, lesser beings to the white European settlers and their descendants. The treatment of Australia’s Indigenous population has improved since the settlers but is nowhere near where it should be. They are forced to live with…

Introduction The case of M’Alister (or Donoghue) v Stevenson , a dispute originally arising in Scotland by an action brought in the Court of Session and finally heard in the House of Lords (‘UKHL’), was the landmark case in separating the law of tort from the law of contract. It was also instrumental in developing the doctrine of negligence and duty of care and helped to further establish the neighbour principal in English law. This paper sets out: (a) the material facts of the Donoghue case;…

Intussusception is an important cause of acute abdomen in the pediatric emergency department. Children between the age group 6 months to 3 years of age present with recent onset of pain abdomen and vomiting (1). Intussusception was considered adverse prognosis previously with fatal outcomes in the past. Prompt diagnosis and effective treatment has lead to better management in the present time (2). In this article, we review the role of ultrasound (US) in the diagnosis of intussusception and its…

A 2001 study concluded that a minimum of $3.6 billion could be saved annually in health care costs if breastfeeding rates increased to those recommended by the U.S. Surgeon General due to a reduction of otitis media, gastroenteritis and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) cases. More recently, Batrick and Reinhold’s cost-analysis study determined that if 90% of U.S. families followed the recommendation to breastfeed exclusively for six months, the United States would save $13…

the size of cats, lice, frogs and nits. These creators were responsible for many diseases such as trench fever, trench foot and head lice, (Michael Duffy 2009). Lack of sanitation at Gallipoli was a huge problem. Men suffered from dysentery, gastroenteritis, typhoid fever, pneumonia and cholera, (Victorian government 2011). Due to the conditions in both Gallipoli and western front the ANZACS life was harsh as they faced disease, challenging terrain and trying weather…

Dehydration simply means decrease of water or fluid in the body, it occurs when we use lose more fluid or water than we intake daily and our body have no enough water and other fluids to carry out its normal functions. We lose water every day in the form of sweat, urine, and stool. Along with the water, small amounts of salts are also lost. When we lose too much water we may be dehydrated. In some cases, severe dehydration may lead to death. Sweating is the body’s natural way to release excess…

The story started when Dr. Juvenal Urbino went to the house and examine the dead body of his close friend, Jeremiah Saint-Amour, he killed himself at age of sixty. While examining the room of Jeremiah Saint-Amour, Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed a bunch of letters that was intended to be sent to him and after reading those letters which contained instructions where to get the money for his burial, Dr. Juvenal Urbino asked the officer and the medical student with him to start fixing the papers for the…

Bowel cancer is the term used for a cancerous tumour that presents itself in the large bowel and can go by other names such as colon or rectal cancer depending on where it starts from, it also includes rectal cancer. It can also present itself in the small intestine. Around 1 in 20 people residing in the United Kingdom will develop a form of bowel cancer and about 40,000 cases of bowel cancer are diagnosed each year. There are four sections to the bowel in which cancer can develop in any of them…