What MedicaseHub is

Medical cases circulate every day through forums and groups, and most of them disappear: no structure, no context, no way to find them again a month later. MedicaseHub collects them, strips every identifying detail, and rebuilds each one into a format that reads quickly and consistently.

Where the cases come from

Most come from the published medical literature: case reports in peer-reviewed journals, many of them open access. Some come from accounts that patients or their families have chosen to make public. A few are historical.

Every case is rewritten from scratch in our own words. We do not reproduce journal text, and we say at the foot of each article exactly which source it came from, so you can check it.

When a patient is named

Two different rules apply, and it is worth being clear about which is which.

Cases from the clinical literature are anonymous, because they were published that way. We describe a 54-year-old woman or a boy of six, and we remove anything that could narrow that down further.

Cases the patient made public are named, because they are already public and because the person chose to tell their story. Where someone has given interviews, worked with a hospital's communications team, or published an account of their own treatment, we use their name and credit them. Pretending otherwise would be a strange kind of respect.

We do not name anyone who did not name themselves. And if you are described on this site and would rather not be, the page comes down, no explanation required.

Images

We use an image only when we are entitled to. In practice that means openly licensed figures from journals that permit reuse, material old enough to be out of copyright, and diagrams we draw ourselves.

Where a case has striking clinical photographs that we cannot license, we leave them out and say so, rather than using them and hoping. Where images are graphic, they sit behind a click rather than loading automatically.

The diagrams

Every diagram on this site was made for it. They exist because the explanation usually needs a picture that does not exist yet: why a scar crosses the wound edge, why a drug in the blood cannot reach dead tissue, why an eye drops when the bone beneath it is removed.

They are free to reuse with attribution and a link. If they are useful to you, take them.

Our limits

MedicaseHub is not a diagnostic resource and does not replace a consultation. The writing aims to explain clinical decision-making, not to instruct treatment. Where a case involves judgement calls that clinicians disagree on, we say so rather than presenting one answer as settled.

Corrections

If you spot an error, tell us and we will fix it and note the change. Accuracy matters more here than in most subjects.