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My name is Maria, and I wanted to welcome everyone back to a new episode of Neurology

Virtual Morning Report, a podcast series

dedicated to ending neurophobia. I love neurology, but I know that not everyone feels this way.

So if neurology makes you feel a little bit scared, rest assured you are in the right place.

Hopefully after this episode, you will get to love Neuro as much as we do. Today, we will tackle a case presented by our very own Kirtan with the guidance of our in-house

neurologist extraordinaire, Aaron Berkowitz.

Joining us, we have Vivek Paul and Hannah Roberts.

And we have to give a shout out to Leah Bishop for the audio edition of this episode.

Take it away, Kirtan. The title is an elementary

diagnosis. So that's the title. And the chief complaint is weakness in all extremities.

Weakness in all extremities in elementary diagnosis. Hannah, would you like to tell us how you would start thinking about this chief concern?

So weakness in all four extremities. I will be curious as to the onset, is it rather acute versus

is it a chronic insidious process? I'll be curious about the rest of the medical history and the

demographics. The title saying

elementary, I'm thinking it's going to be perhaps an electrolyte disturbance, but I'm not going to

let that anchor me too quickly. But I'd certainly want to place this in time and then with the rest

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