A Leading Question

Stage A 43-year-old man was hospitalized because of a three-day history of epigastric pain, pain in the right upper quadrant, and constipation. The pain was intermittent and not associated with nausea, vomiting, fever, or eating. Stage The patient had been born in Israel to parents of Libyan origin. His job as a merchant often took him abroad, especially to Spain and Egypt. He had had type 2 diabetes mellitus for six years, for which he took 5 mg of glyburide per day. Approximately 13 months before the present admission, he had been hospitalized at another facility for several days for . . .