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Numbness and Pain:
A 47-year-old obese female complains of pain in her right wrist, with tingling and numbness in the thumb
and index and middle fingers for the past 2 weeks. She has been frustrated because the pain causes her to
drop her hair-styling tools.
Use the Episodic/Focused SOAP Template and create an episodic/focused note about the patient in the
case study to which you were assigned using the episodic/focused note template provided in the Week 5
resources. Provide evidence from the literature to support diagnostic tests that would be appropriate for
each case. List five different possible conditions for the patient’s differential diagnosis, and justify why you
selected each