Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2021. Q: Our Yorkshire terrier Bentley has a dry, honking cough. His ...

History: A 47-year-old man presented with an 3-weeks history of a chronic cough. Smoker of 80 pack-years. Examination revealed disminution of respiratory murmur, no fever and little sputum.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Oldenburg have set up a special hotline answered by a computer. When callers cough into the receiver, the computer can tell them whether they have a dry ...