Mr. R is a 92-year-old man with advanced dementia who presents after suffering a pulseless electrical activity arrest due to an aspiration event while at his nursing home. He was resuscitated by...
Published July 16, 2013

Mr. R is a 67-year-old Army veteran with metastatic lung cancer admitted with shortness of breath. His chest x-ray shows progression of his lung cancer. Three days ago, at his last appointment with...
Published November 6, 2012

Mr. C is a 76-year-old with locally advanced rectal cancer and severe COPD. Two weeks before potentially curative surgery for his cancer, he's admitted with an MI. His course is complicated by...
Published July 27, 2012

Mr. D was an 81-year-old gentleman with severe COPD, with symptoms so debilitating that they could only be controlled with high-dose oral prednisone. He was admitted with a GI bleed, and was...
Published May 15, 2012

Mr. B is a 64-year-old truck driver with a 250 pack-year history of smoking. He presented to the hospital with non-massive hemoptysis, and his work-up demonstrated metastatic squamous cell...
Published March 26, 2012