Medical School for Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases

A trip to a general clinic, where one meets a patient whose chief complaint is, "I never feel good."; learning how doctors solve mysteries with the aid of several tools; the most important being the patient's medical history.

A young man's fever, cough and ulcers leads to a surprising diagnosis; this powerful exploration is an opportunity to learn more of the basic tools of medical diagnoses; discovering how doctors begin to fight back against the modern epidemic.

Learning how critical a complete medical history, a thorough physical exam and collaboration between doctors is to make a tricky diagnosis; Louisa suffers from abdominal pain for years; she could have irritable bowel syndrome or something else.

An illness that has been around for millennia but which many of today's physicians have never seen; a 10-year-old boy suffers from a rash that does not bother him, red-appearing eyes and a cough; the true culprit could easily have been prevented.

A patient suffers from a sinus headache; the nurses think he is just after drugs; learning how physicians diagnose headaches; the differences between primary and secondary headaches; red flags doctors look for when determining their severity.

Discovering how doctors diagnose a common disease that can kill a healthy 36-year-old woman in months; in a 90-year-old, it may not need to be treated at all; a woman with increasing hip pain; learning about the genetics of this disease.