Life in the Inner City

Author Affiliation
Stephen D Docherty, DO Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California

A 56-year-old homeless male presented to the emergency department with a bloody nose. When asked if he took medications, he replied in the affirmative. When asked which medications he took on a regular basis he produced the following photograph (Figure).

Figure. Photo of medications presented.
Figure. Photo of medications presented.

Footnotes

Supervising Section Editor: Sean Henderson, MD
Submission history: Submitted May 27, 2011; Accepted May 30, 2011
Reprints available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2011.5.6809

Address for Correspondence: Stephen D. Docherty, DO
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center, 1200 N State St, Rm 1011, Los Angeles, CA 90033
E-mail: sdochert@usc.edu

Conflicts of Interest: By the WestJEM article submission agreement, all authors are required to disclose all affiliations, funding, sources, and financial or management relationships that could be perceived as potential sources of bias. The author disclosed none.