Internal Medicine Pharmacotherapy

Since July is here and the academic calendar is starting over, it is time for new medical residents to be arriving to the hospital floors...

Let’s start with a patient case.  A 45 year old woman is referred to the hospital after seeing her primary care physician for unusual bru...

Let’s start with a patient case.   A 72 year old female presents to the hospital with fatigue, palpitations, and shortness of breath that...

Testing urine for the presence of drugs has a variety of uses including assessing poisoning or overdose, pre-employment testing, substanc...

Let’s start with a patient case.   An elderly patient is admitted through the emergency department with markedly worsening dyspnea and pu...

Stress ulcer prophylaxis is a topic that comes up frequently on the internal medicine service but is not frequently given more than a mom...