I was drunk at a club with many friends a few years ago when I entered my first inadvertent patient-doctor relationship. My buddy’s GF asked me what I thought about a lump on her neck. I felt it, and it seemed to be an enlarged lymph node. I don’t even remember it in much detail, […]
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The Gout Walk
How A Simple Doctor’s Visit Becomes Complicated When i see a patient walking past my office towards the exam room I can generally recognize a ‘gout walk’. Obese middle-aged man walking on the outside of his foot trying not to put pressure on the great toe. In the exam room the patient will tell me […]