In the Grand Rounds Activity students in groups were assigned a disease of the endocrine system. Then each group researched their disease and separately in front of groups of doctors acted as if they were experiencing symptoms of their disease. Each doctor would write and collect evidence about the person who acted out the disease. Each group researched and diagnosed each group or person with a disease. We had to have a claim, evidence, and reasoning on a piece of binder paper. We then had to choose one disease we researched and write a paragraph(below). I learned the many different diseases of the endocrine and the symptoms that go with them.
I diagnose Patient Paige with Graves Disease. She experienced increase in diet but continues to lose weight. She has anxiety, chest pains, irregular menstrual cycle, muscle weakness, and hand tremors. These are all symptoms of Graves Disease. In Graves Disease your immune system creates antibodies that cause the thyroid to grow and make more thyroid hormone than your body needs(autoimmune disease).This means your immune system, which normally protects your body and helps fight disease, produces antibodies that attack the thyroid gland.The Thyroid gland, located at the front of your neck, produces two thyroid hormones: thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). T4 and T3 regulate how the body uses energy. This is sometimes called your metabolism. How well the thyroid works is controlled by another gland called the pituitary, which is located in your brain. The pituitary produces thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which tells the thyroid to produce T4 and T3. Paige is 40 years old which is about the time most women start to experience Graves Disease symptoms. The primary treatment goals are to inhibit the overproduction of thyroid hormones and lessen the severity of symptoms. Therefore based on these symptoms I believe Paige has Graves Disease.