This case involves a previously healthy twenty-five-year-old male with no significant past medical history. He presented to a dentist with a sudden onset of tooth pain, trismus, and severe swelling of the jaw. At the initial visit, no x-rays or…
This case involves a fifty-one-year-old woman who began experiencing stress urinary incontinence and problems with her bowel functions. The woman went to see an obstetrician/gynecologist who had specialized training in urogynecology and pelvic surgery. The doctor diagnosed the woman with…
This case concerns a patient who was admitted to a VA Hospital because he had poorly controlled diabetes and had persistent arm and leg weakness. An initial examination showed that the patient’s blood sugar was dangerously high and he was…
This case involves a forty-nine-year-old male patient admitted to the hospital for severe abdominal pain. A CT-abdomen done at this admission showed a poorly defined mass on the medial portion of the right hepatic lobe. The CT with contrast revealed…
This case involves a forty-five-year-old woman, status post hysterectomy.  This patient presented to her OBGYN physician for a partial hysterectomy via Da Vinci robotic approach.  During the procedure suing the surgical technology, one of the blades fractured from one of the trocars,…
This case involves a thirty-year-old male patient with a past medical history of diabetes. He presented to his dentist for a molar extraction for braces. Following the procedure, the patient had a severe infection of the extraction site. The infection/abscess…
This case involves a forty-five-year-old female who presented to the emergency room with a history of severe right upper quadrant abdominal pain. A CT scan of her abdomen revealed a non-specific vascular liver lesion. At the time of diagnosis, the…
This case involves a fifty-five-year-old male who underwent an anterior and posterior spinal fusion surgery for the treatment of an epidural abscess with spinal cord compression. According to the medical record, the procedure was conducted without incident, however, the patient sustained deleterious,…
This case involves a fifty-eight-year-old female patient who presented to her OBGYN complaining of post-menopausal bleeding. The patient underwent a failed dilation and curettage by a previous physician who told her that she had a thickened endometrial stripe. The patient…
