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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Illness Script

The Clinical Problem Solvers

So the illness script we developed as a first-year medical student will evolve over time. lab tests, imaging, and/or pathology). Including key features with high likelihood ratios will help you decide whether to treat, test for, or toss a diagnosis. What: Key diagnostic findings of the disease (e.g.,

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

Pamela Wible MD

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors.

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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!) So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. 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.