A 60-year-old man with a significant smoking history and breast cancer presented to the emergency department with severe back and left lower extremity pain. Clinical evaluation revealed metastatic ...

To convert the values for bilirubin to micromoles per liter, multiply by 17.1. To convert the values for lactic acid to milligrams per deciliter, divide by 0.1110. To convert the values for urea ...

Dr. Brooke A. Rice (Medicine): A 56-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of left lower abdominal pain and anemia. The patient had been in his usual state of health until 1 year before ...

I’ve been dealing with back pain off and on for more than a decade. I’ve seen doctors, had X-rays — you name it, I’ve done it. The diagnosis: Bad posture. As a writer, I spend long hours hunched over ...