by SARA WILCHOWSKI on January 30, 2017June 12, 2017
The patient presented for a rash "down there". She was in her 60's and I asked her to lie on her back to examine her front side. After careful examination, I asked her to flip over on the table to exam the back side of her. I had to pull apart her buttocks to get a better look at her anal mucosa as her chief complaint was pruritis. As I approached her rear end the patient let out some gas. Some …

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by LAWRENCE R FELDMAN, MD on January 9, 2017June 12, 2017
I had a patient who was a 34 y/o male and presented with a periungual wart on his left index finger. We tried many different modalities to destroy the wart but were unsuccessful. At the time a med school classmate who was a colo-rectal surgeon had started treating warts with a CO2 laser. I asked my pt to go see the colo-rectal surgeon for a consult to see if laser would help. He went for the appo …

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