The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

We walked down to the emergency room and reviewed his chart. Then things started to get a little bit different… His chest x-ray had some peripheral infiltrates, and the emergency department providers ordered a CT scan. Yet, managing uncertainty is the “name of the game” in diagnostic reasoning.

Illness 52

Illness Diagnosis Emergency Room Diagnose 52

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96