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CASE STUDY: CONDUCT A Focused Throat Exam

Lily is a 20-year-old student at the local community college. When some of her friends and classmates told her about an outbreak of flu-like symptoms sweeping her campus during the past 2 weeks, Lily figured she shouldn't take her 3-day sore throat lightly. Your clinic has treated a few cases similar to Lily's. All the patients reported decreased appetite, headaches, and pain with swallowing. As Lily recounts these symptom she also report having a runny nose and a slight hoarseness in her voice but doesn't sound congested.

Question

• From the case study, use the Episodic/Focused SOAP Note format when assessing the patient
• consider abnormal findings from patients
• What history should be collected from the patients?
• what physical exams and diagnostic tests should be conducted
• what are the different diagnosis one can formulate from the case study, give several possible condition?
• Reference:

Ball, J. W., Dains, J. E., Flynn, J. A., Solomon, B. S., & Stewart, R. W. (2019). Seidel's guide to physical examination: An interprofessional approach (9th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.