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Started community medicine again today, but this time, I have a little bit all semester rather than a concentrated dose. I’ll write more about it later (pretty exhausted right now and have to get up at 5:30 tomorrow AM), but I had to share this one absolutely true story:

(patient comes in for asthma/asthma-like symptoms, wheezing present)
“So how long have you had this problem?”
“Off and on for a while, but it’s been worse the last two weeks”
“Do you smoke?”
(look of horror) “Oh no! I actually was a regular smoker, but I stopped smoking already–too many problems.”
“Excellent!” I say. “How long has it been since you quit?”
“One week.”

Well that takes care of that! Now to find the hidden cause that is exacerbating her bronchoconstriction… *eyeroll*

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