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A 36 year old male with vomiting and pain abdomen

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This is an online E log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's signed informed consent.  Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs.  This E log book also reflects my patient-centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on the comment A 36 year old male, shop keeper by occupation, resident of Kolkata, West Bengal, came to OPD with chief complaints of vomiting since 2 months and pain in the abdomen since 2 months. HISTORY OF PRESENTING ILLNESS: Patient was apparently asymptomatic 2 months ago and then he developed vomiting which was insidious in onset, gradually progressive. The content of vomiting was food particles, yellow to green in color (non bilious), non projectile vomiting, no relation to pain. He had 4-5 epi

MY EXPERIENCES WITH GENERAL CELLULAR AND NEURAL CELLULAR PATHOLOGY IN A CASE BASED BLENDED LEARNING ECOSYSTEM'S CBBLE

Hello, I am Rohith Jampani, a medical student from INDIA. I'll be sharing a couple of my most fascinating experiences during my postings in general medicine.  All my experiences were only possible because of the guidance I received from our HOD sir and my mentors. They have encouraged me in their unique way, sharing examples and taught me to pursue my dreams so I would like to express my gratitude to them. My first ever encounter with a patient was when I was posted in the general medicine department and all of us were supposed to take up a patient's history and diagnose by ourselves. So, I happened to go to the AMC ward to take a patient's history. All of a sudden, I see a woman bawling her eyes out and obviously I could not stand for. I really wanted to get all the help she wanted with the knowledge I had so I tried to calm her down and take down a proper history. The art of history taking involves the ability to recognize the interrelationship between the details of the

60 year old female with pain, vomiting and burning micturition

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    This is an online E log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's signed informed consent.  Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs.  This E log book also reflects my patient-centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on the comment   A 50 year old female patient, fruit seller by occupation, came to casualty with chief complaints of abdominal pain since 15 days; vomiting since 15 days; burning micturition since 15 days. HISTORY OF PRESENTING ILLNESS: Patient was apparently asymptomatic 15 days back then she developed abdominal pain in the epigastric region, which was of squeezing type, associated with vomitings, food as content, black in color, non projectile, non bilious, non foul smelling, 3-4 episodes. It w