13/04/2021 11:00 AM
Answer all questions:
Max Marks: 100 (5 questions in total and 20 marks for each answer)
Submit by: 25/4/2021
Below is an online formal question paper to be answered online using all available resources at your online disposal over a period of days and E logged in a manner demonstrated by past examinees in the link here https://
medicinedepartment.blogspot. com/2021/02/blended-bimonthly- assessment-dec-2020.html?m=1 And here is a sample answer paper from the last exam here: https://ashiness3.blogspot.com/2020/11/ bimonthly-assessment-for- month-of.html?m=1 please note that every logged answer paper should contain the link to this current "assignment/question paper" page and the patient context for each answer as well as avoid plagiarism as illustrated in the sample answer paper. A sample answer to the last question around sharing your experiences can be seen here: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid= 4EF578BAE67BA469!4180&ithint= file%2cdocx&authkey=! AOy7BpRTn42DBMo
Questions plan and context:
Section 1) Please go through the patient data in the links below and answer the following questions:
"I suffered from bad cramps and loose stool movements – and not the usual stomach cramps, it felt like someone was trying to tear out my insides.
On top of that, I was constantly bloated, suffered from bad mouth ulcers, mood swings, hot and cold chills, weight loss, and the dreaded haemorrhoids. It was only in the last year that I started noticing a lot of blood in my stools (lovely I know). My whole body was in pain, from my joints to my muscles, and to my mental state. This led to me becoming quite depressed and anxious, making matters a whole lot worse."
Patient 2:
"I had just gotten back from a holiday with a group of my friends when I had to leave work. I was experiencing constant fever symptoms, I fainted a few times and I was going to the toilet about 15-20 times a day. Not only this but every time I had to use the toilet I was losing blood"
Quoted above from: www.irishtimes.com/life-and-
Patient 3
"2004 and early 2005 were the the darkest days of my life. With no proper diagnosis and treatment, I was going nowhere. Every day was a challenge. I cloud barely drink a glass of fruit juice. No question of taking solid food. Just a bit of solid food in my mouth, it used to cause intense burning. If I managed to forcefully swallow some food, I used to vomit immediately. I was weighing 30kg, just skin and bones. Everyone lost hope, I was not knowing what went wrong and on top of that, everyone who came to see me used to say " your parents and doctors are putting all the efforts to make you healthy, but you don't seem to put any kind of effort or show any intension to get better. Looks like you are enjoying being sick and you want to remain sick.
They were giving me all kinds of suggestions ' why don't you eat, why don't you get up from the bed etc etc. I felt inside ' if these people, even for a minute, go through, the kind of pain I'm bearing for years and, manage to live for a couple of days, I would listen to their suggestion.
Suicidal thoughts were coming, I decided to end my life, luckily my mother came to my rescue and told me ' if you want to die, you should not die alone, I will also end my life along with you ' she said live and fight. That day I promised her, come what way, I'm not going to give up."
Above quoted from: https://medicinedepartment.
In health professional's notes:
Patient 4:
"35/ M who works as a mason presented to us with history of
Diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties
Diagnostic uncertainty:
Patient 3:
"I spent first 10 years of my life absolutely healthy. Started becoming sick after that. Saw few local doctors both allopathy/homeopathy, they said everything was fine, but I wasn't improving. Later met one of the leading gastroenterologist at ABCD Institute of Gastroenterology who diagnosed me as having TB in March 2001 and put on Anti Tuberculosis Treatment for 3 years that ended in march 2004.
After 3 years of pain and suffering, I went from bad to worse. The doctor said ' why did you come again, your treatment is over'. I asked doctor the reason for not recovering he said ' it might not be TB, it might be some other disease, get admitted we will evaluate again'.
I could not digest those words, I was seeing him every fifteen days for 3 years with all the tests and reports.
2004 and early 2005 were the the darkest days of my life. With no proper diagnosis and treatment, I was going nowhere. Every day was a challenge."
Above quoted from:
https://medicinedepartment.
Patient 4:
In this patient logged by our Intern here http://sruthi995.blogspot.
Therapeutic uncertainty:
Patient 1:
"I was taking several different medications at a time for over four months, but the worst of them all was the steroid called prednisone (anyone who has been on these can sympathise with me). These are truly the worst steroids in the world, I gained so much weight, I suffered from moon face, which made me look like a chipmunk (and not a cute one). I started receiving Infliximab (Remicade) infusions every two months, which is an auto-immune suppressant drug used to treat IBD."
Patient 2:
"I thought I could get it under control quickly and everything would go back to the way it was. I was wrong. The first six months after diagnosis were hell on earth. I developed severe anxiety about leaving the house as a result of my illness and symptoms. I tried to return to work and then became depressed when I failed miserably. My relationship ended. I had no appetite and couldn’t put back on the weight which resulted in me feeling really badly about my body and appearance.
I was taking steroids called Prednisone for the first three months and they made my face swell up, my hair fall out and also added massively to the anxiety and depression I was already dealing with. I began getting Infliximab (Remicade) infusions to suppress my immune system every eight weeks. That eventually had to be changed to every six weeks because my symptoms were still quite severe and the medication wasn’t lasting long enough.
Fourteen months down the line after diagnosis I am still struggling. "