Posts in Clinical guides

Chest pain with a normal ECG leaves a cardiologist holding a decision and very l...

Lift a patient’s pain-free leg, and the sciatica fires down the other side...

The Wright test, also called the hyperabduction test, moves the patient’s ...

Two clinicians test the same fingertip an hour apart and record thresholds 4 mm ...

High-risk pregnancies need close fetal surveillance, and the nonstress test is o...

A wrist that still aches a month after a fall is often a scaphoid fracture nobod...

Plenty of hearing diagnoses are missed at the first appointment, and the usual r...

A patient comes home from a trip with three weeks of watery diarrhea, and the st...

Ask a patient to reach for something on a high shelf and you learn more about th...

Dizziness rarely tells you which ear is at fault. The history sounds much the sa...

A patient faints twice a month. She sweats through one side of her shirt and not...

Most people first hear the words “bone marrow test” right after a bl...