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Learning About Medicine And Race

As a fourth-year student I took an elective rotation on an HIV consult service at a community hospital in a large U.S. city. One late fall afternoon our team was called to see "Mr. X," a forty-year-old heterosexual black man with AIDS. He had come into the hospital with severe abdominal pain, cramping, fever, nausea, vomiting, and bloody diarrhea. Separated from his wife and daughter, Mr. X was a working-class man who reportedly contracted HIV through a transfusion a decade before.

The primary care medical team suspected cytomegalovirus (CMV) colitis and ordered an abdominal CT scan with oral contrast to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Diagnosis: Noncompliance

 

Seeing Myself

 

A Patient Transformed

 

Empathy Needed

 

Flying High

 

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