New acidosis

49-year-old man, previously in good health, presents after a few weeks of progressive weakness and dizziness. He admits to polyuria. Your job is to extensively discuss his lab tests. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease" - Sir William Osler "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." - Groucho Marx "It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not... [read full story]