In other studies, doctor and patient disagreed about the chief complaint—the reason the patient came to see the doctor—between 25 to 50 percent of the time. This is information that can come only from the patient and yet, time after time, doctors fail to obtain it.
Lack of training may also contribute to the problem. Doctors spend two years in classrooms learning how to identify and categorize disease processes, matching symptoms to known disease entities, but until recently very few programs offered any training on how to obtain that essential information. The assumption seemed to be that this did not need to be taught. And there may have been an unspoken expectation that our improved diagnostic technology would reduce our dependence on this kind of personal information. Studies have shown that neither assumption is true.
- Every patient tells a story
- Every patient tells a story
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- Dead Poets Society
- Dead Poets Society
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
- Robert Frost
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
- Robert Frost
الأطلال
أم كلثوم
يا فؤادي لا تسل أين الهوى
كان صرحًا من خيالٍ فهوى
إسقني واشرب على أطـلاله
واروِ عني طالما الدمع روى
كان صرحًا من خيالٍ فهوى
إسقني واشرب على أطـلاله
واروِ عني طالما الدمع روى
A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.
- Every patient tells a story
- Every patient tells a story