Clinical Cases and Images is a useful resource that brings together various pearls of medical wisdom and aims to bridge the gap between clinical theory and practice.
Learn by reading case studies, such as this one about an 84 year old woman admitted for COPD exacerbation: http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/2004/02/copd-vs-chf-exacerbation.html
And these cases are in test format:
Anemia with hemoglobin 4.2 mg/dL. What is the cause?
Shortness of breath and diffuse ground glass pattern on CT of the chest. What is the cause?
Abdominal pain in a 93-year-old male. What is the cause?
Elderly female with CHF complains of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, and confusion for 5 days. What is the cause?
Most of the contributors to the web site are physicians at Cleveland Clinic or Case Western Reserve University (St. Vincent/St. Luke) Internal Medicine Residency Program (the blog web site is maintained by Dr. Dimov alone).
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