As I write this post, I am relying primarily on the vision of my left eye, as my right eye vision has been impaired for the last several days now. Last week, I noticed acute blurry right eye vision, and went to the ED, remembering that acutely blurred vision was an indication for prompt evaluation […]
A Battle Between Autonomy and Beneficence
During my heme onc rotation, I had a patient with Hodgkin’s lymphoma who arrived to the ED feeling faint. She had a hemoglobin of 3.4, likely chronic from her malignancy. Apparently, she had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma a year ago, and had refused treatment and had opted to take herbal remedies instead. This was […]
