by Chris Holstege In the practice of medicine at a public university, I often encounter the complaint from my patients that “someone must have slipped something into my drink”. Their rationale is that they have drunk this much on previous occasions, but this time they do not remember anything. I recently was […]
Tox & Hound – aka AKA
by Dan Rusyniak Few things perk a toxicologist’s interest as much as a low bicarb and a high anion gap. To us an Anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis (AGMA, unlike MAGA) is a solvable mystery. You might remember from medical school the mnemonic MUDPILES or CAT MUDPILES. Looking at the list (from Wikipedia) […]