144 Varshitha Kalidindi

 Welcome to my blog! I am Varshitha Kalidindi, 2nd year MBBS student. In this blog, I am going to answer this month's blended assessment questions. The link for the assessment is given below:- https://medicinedepartment. blogspot.com/2021/08/medicine- paper-for-aug-2021-bimonthly. html?m=1 Below are the answers to the asked questions questionwise:- Q1 ) (Testing peer review competency in the active reader of this assignment) : Please go through the long and short cases in the first link shared above and provide your critical appraisal of the captured data in terms of completeness, correctness and ability to provide useful leads to analyze the diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties around the cases shared. Please provide your peer review assessment on not only the the student's written case report but also the reading of the cases followed by the question answer session linked above in the video and share your thoughts around each answer by the student along with your qualitat

 Welcome to my blog! I am Varshitha Kalidindi, a 2nd year medical student. This is an e-log to discuss our patient's de-identified health data after taking informed consent of the patient. It also reflects patient centered online learning portfolio. I will be looking forward to some feedback and valuable inputs through the comments box provided below. I have been given this case in an attempt to understand the topic of "patient clinical data analysis" to develop my competency in reading and comprehending clinical data including history, clinical findings, investigations, diagnosis and treatment plan. CASE:- A 46 year old male came to the OPD with complaints of burning sensation in the feet (bilaterally) since 6 months. The pain was not associated with pedal oedema, tingling/numbness. There was no slippage of foot. Also, it wasn't associated with tingling and numbness/ hyperpigmentation of skin There was history of recurrent episodes of running nose, sore throat, cough

 Welcome to my blog! I am Varshitha Kalidindi, a 2nd year medical student. This is an e-log to discuss our patient's health data after taking consent of the patient. It also reflects patient centered care and online learning portfolio. I will be looking forward to some feedback and valuable inputs through the comments box provided below. This is an ongoing case which will still be regularly edited and updated. CASE :- An 80 year old female came to the hospital with complaints of shortness of breath, decreased appetite, decreased urinary output, abdominal distension, bilateral swelling of  lower limbs since 1 week. CHIEF COMPLAINTS:- Shortness of breath, decreased appetite, decreased urinary output, abdominal distension, bilateral swelling of lower limbs since 1 week. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS:- The patient was apparently asymptomatic 20 days ago. She then had complaints of generalized weakness of body, decreased appetite, difficulty in passing stools (once in 3 days). Later, the p