Welcome to episode 528 of the Divine Intervention Podcast. My name is Devine. In this episode we're going to be

continuing a series on the USMELE Step 2 CK, free 120.

This is the most recent one on the US

on the USEMLE website.

And this is going to be part 9.

This is going to be part 9.

Again, I'm trying to give a fairly detailed discussion of every single question in this series. We've done 65 questions so far.

So we're on question 66. So let's go ahead and power up here a little bit. Okay, so question 66, let's just, again,

if you've missed any part of the series,

I promise you, this is a lot of very useful learning,

but anyway, okay.

A 75 year old man is admitted to the hospital because of a 3D history of fever.

He has type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension and chronic obstructive coronary disease.

One year ago he had a stroke with residual right lower extremity hemiparices.

Medications are am loady pain, thyotropy, metforming, glibepride, lycenoprel and aspirin.

He does not drink alcoholic beverages

and has smoked one pack of cigarettes daily for 50 years.

The patient is widowed, leaves alone, and has three adult children.

He is not in acute distress.

He is 178 centimeters, that's 5 foot 10 inches tall and weighs 82

kilograms, that's 180 pounds. His BMI is 26 kilogram per meter squared.

Temperature is 39.2 degrees Celsius, that's 102.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

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