Non-clinicians skip over some of the most necessary underpinnings of Doctoring and speak too much about housekeeping issues: Blood Pressure targets, aspirin use, mass screenings, immunization rates and so on.
I couldn’t agree more with the importance of knowledge to consider common, and rare, diagnoses. One of my first medical mentors could usually arrive at a diagnosis by physical exam and history alone, and considered lab testing as confirmation of his thoughts. He was seldom surprised
I couldn’t agree more with the importance of knowledge to consider common, and rare, diagnoses. One of my first medical mentors could usually arrive at a diagnosis by physical exam and history alone, and considered lab testing as confirmation of his thoughts. He was seldom surprised
beautifully said.