"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
- Friedrich Nietzsche How to Answer QuestionsHow To Analyze USMLE Questions: 1. Age 2. Past Medical/Surgical History 3. Patient recent activity 4. Onset of condition 5. Differential diagnosis 6. Assessment and plan of the situation Question Source: 2010 Step 1 Content Description and General Information Three weeks after traveling to California to study desert flowers, a 32-year-old man develops a fever, chest pain, and sore muscles. Two days later, red tender nodules appear on the shins, and the right ankle is painful and tender. An x-ray of the chest shows a left pleural effusion. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis? (A) Blastomycosis (B) Coccidioidomycosis (C) Histoplasmosis (D) Mycobacterium marinum infection (E) Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection Remember Do Not Let The Answer Options Change Your Thinking They Could Have Easily Have Written The Following As The Answers: (A) Broad Based Buds (B) Spherule Filled With Endospores (C) Patient Went Splunking (D) Begin Prophylaxis in AIDS Patients When CD4 <50 (E) The Isolated Specimens Grow on Eaton's Agar So by using the methods 1 - 6 you should be able to dissect these questions. If you understand the pathophysiology of a disease/process, it does not matter how they write the questions |
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"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
- Friedrich Nietzsche |