Shadows and Echoes of Understanding: A Physician\u27s Reflection on Plato\u27s Allegory of the Cave and Medicine

Plato\u27s Allegory of the Cave offers a lens through which one can contemplate the complexities of medicine, where the shadows and echoes of illness obscure the true forms of disease. As physicians, we seek to illuminate the shadows that shroud our patients’ understanding of their illnesses and provide clarity to help patients navigate the labyrinth of diagnoses and treatments

Nodular AL Amyloidosis — An Unusual Etiology of a Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

Solitary pulmonary nodules (SPN) are defined as single intraparenchymal opacities less than 3 centimeters. The differential diagnosis of the SPN is broad. AL amyloidosis is a protein conformational disease which occurs when certain monoclonal light chains develop an unstable tertiary structure with resultant polymerization of insoluble amyloid fibrils that deposit in the extracellular space of sundry tissues. In the lung, diffuse interstitial amyloid deposition is the most common form of the disease

Inpatient Management of Delirium

This project will improve inpatient delirium treatment, with the aim of reducing use of nonviolent restraints by 10% on a single inpatient unit over a 3-month period