When the medical student asks a quick question on internal medicine rounds

Freezing someone's esophagus to -320 °F can't be good, right?

Well for some, it may prevent the development of cancer!

This patient has Barrett's esophagus, a condition which is estimated to affect 5% of the population in the US. It is a change in the cellular structure of the

View from a patient's Esophagus.

What's the procedure/condition being treated?

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Studying which topic during medical school?

This is endoscopic dilation of a stricture.

The patient has a history of Crohn's disease (subset of inflammatory bowel disease) for which they previously underwent ileo-colonic resection (surgical removal of part of the end of the small bowel & the first segment of the colon).

View during a colonoscopy performed for abdominal pain in a patient with Crohn's disease/inflammatory bowel disease.

Thoughts on the diagnosis/what's being done?

Me pretending to listen to a murmur that I absolutely cannot hear after the cardiologist repositioned my stethoscope by 0.1 inches

Surgery note: The patient had half their body removed last week, but they were able to walk and poop, ready for discharge.

Medicine note: The patient coughed 3 times when I was talking to them, the cough makes me suspicious they have one of the following 17 conditions. Will

The dermatology team when they're rounding on their 2 inpatients and run into residents from other specialties doing 30 hour shifts.

Here's a video I made explaining the management of a patient who developed rectal bleeding as a complication from treatment of prostate cancer with radiation.

Views from a colonoscopy of a patient with a history of prostate cancer treated with radiotherapy who presented with rectal bleeding.

What are the diagnosis/therapeutic intervention?

Patient in the hospital: gets all their medical issues managed, their discharge orders are released, but they cough 2 times as they're about to leave the hospital

No one:

The internal medicine team:

This seems about right....

On call today but I hope all my friends here get to spend the holiday with their loved ones

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Me walking in the hospital after consulting both cardiology and nephrology on 6 different patients on the same day

Solid advice

When you're finishing residency and someone asks you if you're planning to go into fellowship