Desperate Appliance

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A 64-year-old man presented to the emergency room with fever, chills, nausea, malaise, and left-leg pain that had lasted for four days. For the past two days he had been unable to lift his left leg.I assume he has been unable to lift his left leg because of pain. Acute pain that limits the ability to move a leg makes me think about a vascular catastrophe, trauma, or a fracture. We don't have a lot of history, except a nonspecific febrile illness that may or may not involve the gastrointestinal tract.He had a right-hip fracture . . .

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