He is otherwise healthy with only sports related injuries. She has contributed to the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine and EM PharmD blogs, and is a part of the ALiEM Capsules Team.Ĭase: 50-year-old man presents with a one day history of sore throat, cough and low-grade fever. Guest Skeptic: Meghan Groth is an Emergency Medicine Pharmacist at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. Corticosteroids for treatment of sore throat: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials.
