Mr. R is a 67-year-old Army veteran with metastatic lung cancer admitted with shortness of breath. His chest x-ray shows progression of his lung cancer. Three days ago, at his last appointment with his oncologist, he had been told that … Continue reading
Mr. C is a 76-year-old with locally advanced rectal cancer and severe COPD. Two weeks before potentially curative surgery for his cancer, he’s admitted with an MI. His course is complicated by cardiogenic shock requiring intubation. Cardiac catheterization revealed total … Continue reading
Mr. D was an 81-year-old gentleman with severe COPD, with symptoms so debilitating that they could only be controlled with high-dose oral prednisone. He was admitted with a GI bleed, and was managed conservatively – monitoring blood counts, transfusing as … Continue reading
Mr. B is a 64-year-old truck driver with a 250 pack-year history of smoking. He presented to the hospital with non-massive hemoptysis, and his work-up demonstrated metastatic squamous cell carcinoma, of lung primary. Despite multiple attempts by his physicians to … Continue reading