Abdominal Pain

Urgent message: Noting ‘red flags’ specific to the individual patient is of key importance when details of the presentation do not add up. Jill Chavinson Miller, MD J.W. is a 55-year-old female non-smoker who presented with abdominal pain. She reported that the pain woke her up the night before and lasted all day long, which prevented her from doing much that day. She described the pain as constant and gnawing, assessing its severity as 6 …