Peter Drier, a bank technology manager in New York City, was blindsided after neck surgery by a $117,000 bill from a doctor he did not recall meeting. Credit Joshua Bright for The New York Times.
Cushing's triad, which includes bradycardia, hypertension (with widened pulse pressure), and a change in respiratory pattern, is seen in head injuries with increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
Symptoms and signs of androgen excess are sometimes part of the Cushing's syndrome as well but only develop when multiple steroids are overproduced by the adrenal gland as occurs in adrenocortical carcinomas (ACC) or states of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) excess, which stimulates both cortisol and 19-carbon steroid production from the adrenal glands.