Patient Care

After over 100 years of operating separately, the organizations that administer allopathic and osteopathic physician training are merging into a single entity. Although it may be easier to believe that there are no longer any distinctions between the MD and…

Case: You are caring for a 75-year-old woman from Korea who was admitted for fatigue and weight loss. Diagnostic tests including a CT scan are highly suspicious for lymphoma. Her family is always at her bedside and, from the time…

Claire Becker, a Fordham University junior, was slicing vegetables for dinner in her Bronx apartment when the knife zigged and her hand zagged. “I accidentally sliced open the skin between my thumb and index finger,” Claire recalled, as blood began…

Maria is a 63-year-old woman with a history of polysubstance abuse.   “I used to do heroin every day for 32 years,” she says.  While heroin was her drug of choice, she also dabbled in cocaine, alcohol, pain killers, and…