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Patient Case History

 

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Patient Name:  <= /span>John McBean

Date of Birth:  = February 4, 1940

Age: 64 years old

Sex:  M <= /p>

Mother’s Name:&= nbsp; Martina McBean

Father’s Name:&= nbsp; Chris McBean

 

Your patient is a man, and he has come to your office because he is not well.  The p= atient has the following symptoms:

 

1.      small growths around the ear

2.      some difficulty hearing

 

An examination reveals that the man has the following:=

 

= 1.      small growths along his spinal cord, as well

 

Your job as a medical intern is to learn what you can = about these symptoms, and diagnose this disease.=   Once you have diagnosed the disease that this patient has, you need = to write in your scientific journal the information that you found regarding t= his disease.