Progress in medicine and science has depended much upon the production and circulation of written material. While, throughout history, medical doctors have been actively involved in a wide variety of other fields, such as philosophy, poetry, literature, sciences, politics and the military, many of which have led to the writing of material - it seems that only rarely have physicians become printers and/or publishers. In general those becoming physicians have been characterised as studious, curious, thoughtful, pragmatic, largely even-tempered, dutiful, caring and compassionate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVia our description of a seemingly heterogeneous group of four patients who presented to our rehabilitation facility with a rather unusual clinical presentation of compartment syndrome with development of a flaccid paraparesis and rhabdomyolysis immediately after awakening from a prolonged sleep episode in an unusual posture - which might, in fact, be a 'new syndrome' - we have also come to address an important issue linking our group of patients - specifically, the complexities which present to a rehabilitative facility in the cases of unusual and unclear diagnoses. Eventually, all four of our patients remained severely disabled. All had suffered sensorimotor axonal demyelinative polyneuropathies and two patients had subclinical hypothyroidism.
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