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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Illness Script

The Clinical Problem Solvers

In the reasoning process, we use illness scripts to compare and contrast a patient’s clinical presentation (i.e., So the illness script we developed as a first-year medical student will evolve over time. lab tests, imaging, and/or pathology). shortness of breath is present in heart failure and pneumonia).

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

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. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. Amber: Norm is, yeah.