Mr. Martin's flu
 
Symptoms & History

Physical Findings

Stop & Think

Lab and X-Ray

Differential Diagnosis

The Disease

Treatment

Conclusions

Quiz & Evaluation

OK, these labs don't seem to help matters much. But they do represent a baseline.
  • Maybe Mr. Martin is just full of crap. Suppose he's doing something to himself to make the skin lesions
  • But then he does have a fever.
  • Looking for antibodies to a bug we can't culture may not be helpful right now since enough time hasn't passed to develop a titer that can be measured.
What other options are there? This guy might have something like Lyme disease which can lead to serious problems.   
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