Search results for "Mindful Medicine"
Meld intuition with deliberation to sidestep diagnostic trap
Would you pass “the eyeball test” if the patient in this case study presented in your hospital's emergency room? Find out how one physician pressed for a better answer on a patient who presented with cardiac pain but no evidence of a heart attack.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/03/mindful.htm
1 Mar 2009
What to do when one expects everything to fit, but it doesn't
James Hennessey, FACP, reports on a young woman's elevated testosterone level, and how he made a diagnosis even though the lab results and imaging conflicted. Our diagnostic experts consider confirmation bias and how this internist sidestepped being misled.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/01/mindful.htm
1 Jan 2010
Attribution error confounds a diagnosis after colon cancer
A rapid deterioration in mental status confounds a gastroenterologist following a patient for colon cancer. Following a hospital admission, the internal medicine resident reviews the patient's history for the clue to the right diagnosis.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/07/mindful.htm
1 Jul 2010
It's just old age—or is it? Don't be guided by stereotypes
Would you make the same diagnosis in a 50-year-old patient that you would in an 80-year-old? This and a vague history led one internist to press for a better answer to a patient's anemia and SED rate.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/05/mindful.htm
1 May 2009
January issue in print and online
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https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/01/11/7.htm
11 Jan 2011
The next issue is online and coming to your mailbox
The next issue of ACP Internist is online and coming to your mailbox.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/05/03/7.htm
3 May 2011
The October issue is online and coming to your mailbox
The October issue of ACP Internist highlights continuous glucose monitoring, house calls and managing irritable bowel syndrome.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/10/05/11.htm
5 Oct 2010
Thinking about our thinking as physicians
Cognitive errors have been the bane of making the right diagnosis, and the final installment of the Mindful Medicine column reviews the previous three years of traps and pitfalls that physicians must account for when presented with patients who aren't getting any better, often despite multiple encounters in the health care system.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/10/mindful.htm
1 Oct 2011
Patient's doubts about diagnosis prompt a second opinion
A 61-year-old retired military officer presented to a local hospital in the Midwest with flank pain and E. coli bacteremia.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/03/three.htm
1 Mar 2008
Beware of ‘search satisfaction,’ a common cognitive error
An initially missed diagnosis warns of succumbing to “search satisfaction,” a common cognitive error.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/05/five.htm
1 May 2008