Extremity Pain Case Summary

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SUBJECTIVE Patient comes in with a complaint of chronic right lower extremity pain due to a surgery that he had back in 2011. He apparently does have hardware in the proximal tibial area and apparently, this has been chronically infected. He is supposed to have this hardware removed by his orthopedic surgeon but he got incarcerated prior to having that done. He is also following with infectious disease. He states he has had an infection in there for at least 2-3 years and currently is on Bactrim suppression therapy. He also has some acne on his face that he would like to try Cleocin for which has worked well in the past. Otherwise, his pain has been his biggest issue. He understands that we cannot prescribe narcotics but he states that

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