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Subacute Cold with Chest Congestion — A GP’s Clinical Reasoning Guide

She says the sputum is stuck in her chest. You auscultate — the chest is clear. So where is the disease? This guide teaches you to find it.

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Why This Guide Exists

A 50-year-old lady presented to your OPD with a cold and a runny nose for 20 days. She also complains that she is feeling sputum is stuck in her chest, but it does not come out with a cough. She is also having a mild cough and feels feverish in the evening. Her BP was 116/74 and pulse was 65 bpm (Regularly Regular). On auscultation, you found bilateral normal breath sounds but slightly decreased breath sounds.

This is the kind of patient who gets prescribed “another round of antihistamines and a cough syrup” at day 20. The cold should have resolved by day 10. Something else is sustaining the symptoms — and the answer isn’t in the chest.

This guide walks you through every clue in the history, shows you the one examination finding most GPs miss — the posterior pharyngeal wall — and builds a tiered differential diagnosis from the most likely to the must-not-miss. Real clinical reasoning, the way it happens at the bedside.

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