What is your approach to work up and management of a patient with advanced HIV and poor adherence to therapy presenting with dysphagia and fever?   

I would first do an HPI (is the dysphagia for both liquids and solids?), then a quick physical exam, with a full set of vital signs. In terms of basic blood work, I would get a CBC and BMP, liver function tests, a set of blood cultures, a chest x-ray, along with a viral load and CD4 T cell count, wh...