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A 34-year-old woman attends her general practitioner eight weeks after the vaginal birth of her first child. Her pregnancy was complicated by gestational diabet…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 7-month-old previously well boy is brought to the emergency department after six hours of episodes of sudden inconsolable screaming during which he draws his…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 4-week-old girl born at term is reviewed because she is still visibly jaundiced. The jaundice was first noticed on day three of life; she is fully breastfed,…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

An 8-week-old boy is brought to a general practice for his scheduled immunisations. While preparing the injections the practice nurse notices a 1.5 cm oval brui…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 6-day-old boy born at term is brought to the emergency department after vomiting three times over four hours; the most recent vomitus was dark green. He fed n…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 22-month-old boy is brought to his general practitioner because he is not yet talking. He says 'mum' and 'dada' only, but points to things he wants, waves goo…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 3-year-old boy presents with six days of fever above 39°C that has persisted despite regular paracetamol; he is miserable and difficult to console. Both eyes…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-day-old girl is brought to the emergency department after her mother measured an axillary temperature of 38.3°C at home. She was born at term after an unco…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 15-month-old boy presents with two days of vomiting and frequent watery stools. He is alert but subdued, with dry lips, mildly sunken eyes, heart rate 148/min…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 18-month-old boy wakes at 2 am with a harsh, barking cough and noisy breathing and is brought to the emergency department. He has had a runny nose for two da…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 9-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department with three days of runny nose and moist cough, and one day of fast, noisy breathing. She is taking abo…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 78-year-old woman presents with sudden painless loss of vision in her right eye on waking this morning. For the past three weeks she has had a right-sided hea…

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 66-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department at 9 pm with severe right-sided headache, nausea and repeated vomiting that began while she was watch…

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common

A 48-year-old man who migrated from southern China ten years ago presents with six weeks of a blocked sensation and reduced hearing in the right ear. On several…

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 23-year-old man presents with a five-day history of worsening sore throat, and swallowing has become so painful that he is spitting his saliva into a cup. His…

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common

A 72-year-old woman presents with an ulcer above her left medial malleolus that has been present for eight weeks. She has type 2 diabetes and smoked a packet of…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 74-year-old woman presents with severe pain in her left leg that began abruptly two hours ago while she was sitting watching television. She walks to the shop…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old man sustains a closed fracture of the midshaft of the left tibia playing football. A plaster backslab with encircling crepe bandage is applied and…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 58-year-old woman presents with two days of right loin pain radiating to the groin, associated with shaking chills. Her temperature is 38.9°C, pulse 118/min a…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 14-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department after waking at 5 am with sudden severe pain in the left side of his scrotum, and he has vomited twice.…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common