Functional bowel disease
Question 11
An 83-year-old female presents to the office complaining of diarrhea for several days. She explains she has even had fecal incontinence one time. She describes loose stools 3–4 times a day for several weeks and denies fever, chills, pain, recent antibiotic use. The history suggests that the patient has:
Acute diarrhea
Chronic diarrhea
Irritable bowel
Functional bowel disease
· Question 12
Margaret, age 32, comes into the office with painful joints and a distinctive rash in a butterfly distribution on her face. The rash has red papules and plaques with a fine scale. What do you suspect?
An allergic reaction
Relapsing polychondritis
Lymphocytoma cutis
Systemic lupus erythematosus
· Question 13
Antibiotic administration has been demonstrated to be of little benefit to the treatment of which of the following disease processes?
Chronic sinusitis
Acute bronchitis
Bacterial pneumonia
Acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis