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A 75 year old male with swelling over abdomen and pain over the swelling

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This is an online E log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's signed informed consent.  Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs.  This E log book also reflects my patient-centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on the comment       A 75 year old male, farmer by occupation, came to OPD with chief complaints of swelling over the abdomen since 5 years and pain over the swelling since 15 days.   HISTORY OF PRESENTING ILLNESS: Patient was apparently asymptomatic 5 years ago and then he noticed a swelling over his epigastric region, insidious in onset, size of a peanut which gradually progressed to the present size. There is no relation to standing, walking or straining. It was slightly reducible to lying d

My experiences with general cellular and neural cellular pathology in a case based blended learning ecosystem's CBBLE

  Hello, I'm SAI SHREYA, a medical student from India. I'll be sharing few of my experiences in the general medicine department clinical postings, but before that I'd like to thank our mentors and HOD sir. They taught us theory and practice, gave us an inspiration to strive for perfection. As Hippocrates stated, “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.” I’m sure that all of us are truly connected through this quote. Our choice of medicine wasn’t an accident. I think that medicine is nothing without love of humanity. It is a delicate and demanding art at the end of which, when well-practiced, is renewed life and freedom from suffering and fear for our patients.  My first ever encounter with a patient was with an old woman who was agitated with pain and all of her family members were worried. She was a 59 year old who was a housewife with complaints of pain in her left pelvic bone since 2 months. It is obviously very difficult to handle

Batch 2017- neuro cases part 1

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A 55 year old female with headache, neck pain.

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  This is an online E log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's signed informed consent.  Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs.  This E log book also reflects my patient-centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on the comment     A 55 year old female, farmer by occupation, resident of chityal, came to casualty with chief complaints of headache with neck pain since 15 days. HISTORY OF PRESENTING ILLNESS: Patient was apparently asymptomatic 15 days ago, then she developed headache which was insidious in onset, non progressive, is present most time of the day, non pulsatile, diffuse, dull aching type, radiating to neck. There was restriction of movement in the neck, aggravated on extension of neck, no

A 28 year old male with loss of appetite, hematuria and pedal edema.

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This is an online E log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's signed informed consent.  Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs.  This E log book also reflects my patient-centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on the comment     A 28 year old male, resident of  Chityal, daily wage labourer by occupation, came to casualty with chief complaints of loss of appetite since 20 days, red coloured urine since 10 days and swelling of feet since 10 days.  HISTORY OF PRESENTING ILLNESS: Patient was apparently asymptomatic 20 days ago and then he had loss of appetite, insidious in onset, for which he went to hospital and got diagnosed as CLD, splenomegaly with portal hypertension and took medication. After whic

A 45 year old male with pain abdomen and vomitings

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This is an online E log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's signed informed consent.  Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs.  This E log book also reflects my patient-centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on the comment   A 45 year old male, carpenter by occupation, resident of Chityal, came to OPD with chief complaints of pain in the abdomen since 3 days and vomitings since 1 day. HISTORY OF PRESENTING ILLNESS: Patient was apparently asymptomatic 3 days ago and then developed pain in the epigastrium region, sudden in onset, non progressive, no aggravating factors but relieves on bending forward, pain radiating to his back along the left side. No giddiness, pedal edema, SOB. Patient also compla