Severe neck pain in a very sick patient
It was a typical Friday afternoon, and I was about to leave the hospital when a senior medical resident asked me to see Mrs. J , who had just been admitted to the floor from the emergency department.
It was a typical Friday afternoon, and I was about to leave the hospital when a senior medical resident asked me to see Mrs. J , who had just been admitted to the floor from the emergency department.
Susceptible to a wide variety of pathogens, the patient had symptoms of an acute infection.