Physical Findings

Stop & Think

Lab and X-Ray

Differential Diagnosis

The Disease

Treatment

Conclusions

Quiz & Evaluation

• Grandparents died many years before; he can remember nothing of them.
• His father died at the age of 42 in a car accident.
• His mother died at 56 with a heart attack.
• Has two brothers, both living. The older, 57, has supposedly had a heart attack, but he lives in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Weiser doesn't have much of the story.
• He claims one of his brothers has a real drinking problem, and he's thankful he isn't like him.
• He has two grown daughters, both married and in good health.
• He is aware of no familial pattern of malignant disease.
• He wonders about heart disease in his family and thinks he might have been told once his cholesterol is elevated.