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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Illness Script

The Clinical Problem Solvers

our own illness scripts) as we reason to a working diagnosis or a final diagnosis. So the illness script we developed as a first-year medical student will evolve over time. lab tests, imaging, and/or pathology). the patient’s “script”) against our own mental models of a disease (i.e.,

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors. Despite increasing attention to physician wellness , the rates of burnout continue to rise—especially among frontline clinicians, medical students, and residents. Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. There’s that recognition piece. Amber: Norm is, yeah.