A 4-year-old child presents to the office for their routine wellness exam. For which of the following reasons would you defer administration of the varicella vaccine? The child is currently being treated with a low-dose glucocorticoid The child is currently being treated with an oral antibiotic for an ear infection The child recently received immune […]

A 22-year-old man presents to the office after recently being diagnosed with HIV. He reports a past history of intravenous drug use. He has no other past medical history. The infectious disease doctor he is now seeing for the management of his HIV is requesting that he be screened for tuberculosis. You opt to administer […]

A 19-year-old female presents with her mother. They inform the healthcare provider that she has recently become pregnant and plans to keep the child. She has been experiencing nausea, so her boyfriend has encouraged her to smoke cannabis to relieve the symptoms so she can be comfortable. The mother supports this because her daughter is […]

A 20-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after an accident. He is unconscious but has stable vitals. Emergency computed tomography reveals no abnormalities. A few minutes later, he regains consciousness and appears confused. A postictal state is suspected. Soon he starts getting agitated and anxious and starts to perspireg. His heart rate is […]

A 56-year-old man presents to your clinic for his annual physical exam. He asks you about prostate cancer screening since his father was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 80 years. He has a 3-year history of hypertension treated with lisinopril. He is asymptomatic. His physical examination is normal. Which of the […]

A 16-year-old girl is brought by her parents for anger and irritability that started three days ago. She has not been sleeping well is severely anxious, has vivid dreams, and has a decreased appetite. She stays in her room all day. She broke curfew and has been grounded for over a week. She stayed out […]

Mary Juana, a 22-yr-old female, was brought by ambulance to the emergency department of a trauma center after being rescued from a burning building. She suffered second and third degree burns on her face and chest. The investigation reports that it appeared that her apartment caught on fire starting in the bedroom. The extent of […]

A 77 year-old-man with well-controlled hyperlipidemia and hypothyroidism and a body mass index of 27 kg/m2 recently fell while walking from the parking lot to the library. Which of the following interventions alone has a moderate benefit in preventing falls? Assessment of the patient’s home environment Education on fall prevention Group exercise classes three times […]

A 5-year-old child is brought to the clinic by a parent due to continuously scratching their scalp for the past 24 hours. The child has a history of asthma and uses an albuterol inhaler as needed. The child attends school, but the parent is unaware of any sick contacts. Vital signs include HR of 95 […]

Chief Complaint: A 28 year old man presents to the urgent care center with a 48 hour complaint of headache and nausea. ROS- The headache is primarily frontal and occipital and associated with mild nausea.. He has taken various over the counter analgesics without any improvement in his headache. The intensity of the headache has […]