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Our system is strained and we don’t have a solution for it. But is the strain impactingpatient care? This review of an article published in the Journal of HospitalMedicine seems to say that higher patient loads lead to longer patient stays.

These data suggest that a negative rapid antigen test in individuals with residualsymptoms could provide reassurance about ending isolation.

This case study describes an adult man with a history of diabetes and hypertension presenting with painful lesions on his arms and legs. The description covers the course of his workup for presumptive infectious dermatitis through differential diagnosis when the infectious disease workup revealed sterile lesions, to the final diagnosis of Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis).

@thatgaydoctor, MD, a family medicine doctor in Chicago and an advocate for the health of underserved and LGBTQ populations, discusses the two weeks spent in isolation learning about the virus, spreading information across social media, and cautioning people about the routes of transmission, especially among the queer population where it seemed to be spreading rapidly in major cities.

Read this article and obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credit! The learning objective? To appraise when stress ulcer prophylaxis should be considered for critically ill patients with risk factors for stress ulcers.