A 62-year-old teacher presents to the clinic for evaluation of the following symptoms: fever, headache, sinus congestion, sore throat, green nasal discharge, and cough. This cluster of symptoms is best explained by:
A) One disease process
B) More than one disease process
A) One disease process
This cluster of symptoms is most consistent with sinusitis. The chance that all of these symptoms are caused by multiple synchronous conditions in the same patient is much less than the possibility of having one problem which accounts for all of them.
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A) 0 to 100 B) 20 to 80 C) 20 to 100 D) 0 to 50
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