Episode 7
13:09 minutesWhen an infection isn’t an infection
A routine surgery leads to a puzzling reaction. Is more surgery required, or is it something else?
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A routine surgery leads to a puzzling reaction. Is more surgery required, or is it something else?
A common skin condition affects much more than a patient’s skin, and misinformation only exacerbates the stigma.
A dermatologist is paged to examine a rare condition. But something doesn’t add up.
While skin findings can sometimes help with a diagnosis, they can also distract from other undiagnosed symptoms.
What do you do when faced with a set of symptoms that has two contradictory courses of treatment?
Unconscious bias can run so deep that patients and doctors alike can miss a potentially fatal diagnosis.
A patient presents with fever, swollen digits, and skin “the color of a red delicious apple.” She’s been scratching so hard that she’s bleeding through her shirt. What’s going on?