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In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader (regular type). The authors' commentary follows.

A 58-year-old woman was hospitalized for the evaluation of prolonged fever and hemoptysis. She reported an eight-month history of intermittent fevers, a productive cough, shortness of breath, and hemoptysis, which had been evaluated at another hospital. Computed tomographic (CT) scans of the chest revealed peripheral infiltrates in the upper lobe of the left lung and the lingula and a calcified left hilar . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Departments of Medicine D (F.S., R.T.-K.), Cardiology (R.H.), and Pulmonary Medicine (M.R.K.), Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqwa; and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (F.S., R.H., R.T.-K., M.R.K.) — both in Israel.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Salamon at the Department of Medicine D, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqwa 49100, Israel, or at salamonf@post.tau.ac.il.

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