A patient with obstructive sleep apnea came in for his annual evaluation. He had been snoring for decades, but about six years ago, his wife noted that his snoring stopped abruptly in the middle of the night. She observed her husband and noted that his chest was still moving, as if he was breathing, but […]

A forty-year-old lady with a tender breast bone that she called chest pain in the hospital emergency department, spent four hours in an exam cubicle from, 8 PM to 12 MN. The triage team had ordered a chest x-ray, electrocardiogram and a number of lab tests. She was told at midnight that it would be […]