Search results for "Mindful Medicine"
Mindful medicine: Perils of diagnosing the physician-patient
A physician diagnoses himself, leaving a colleague to undo some of the mistaken thinking and come up with a simple diagnosis.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2009/01/mindful.htm
1 Jan 2009
Mindful Medicine: Don't confuse correlation with causation
The case of a young woman mistakenly diagnosed with asthma llustrates the danger of confusing correlation and causation.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2008/07/mindful.htm
1 Jul 2008
Mindful Medicine: Don't let emotion impede right diagnosis
A case study shows how affective errors can lead to a missed diagnosis, by Jerome Groopman, FACP and Pamela Hartzband, FACP.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2008/09/mindful.htm
1 Sep 2008
Letters
Readers respond to Mindful Medicine, Ethics columns.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2008/02/letters.htm
1 Feb 2008
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about medical marijuana, mindful medicine, pharmaceutical reps, and more.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2011/01/letters.htm
1 Jan 2011
When patients don't tell all: The diagnostic challenge
Patients don't always disclose aspects of their history that may be shameful or stigmatizing, posing a challenge of attribution errors for physicians.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2010/10/mindful.htm
1 Oct 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://acpinternist.org/archives/2010/07/mindful.htm
1 Jul 2010
Anchoring errors ensue when diagnoses get lost in translation
In two cases, a patient's use of key words led to anchoring errors in diagnosing an abdominal aortic aneurism and a classic case of intermittent claudication.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2008/11/mindful.htm
1 Nov 2008
Mindful Medicine: Critical thinking leads to right diagnosis
Jerome Groopman, FACP, author of the bestselling “How Doctors Think,” and his wife, endocrinologist Pamela Hartzband, ACP Member, discuss the art of medical diagnosis and decision making through a series of case studies suggested by readers.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2008/01/groopman.htm
1 Jan 2008
Letters to the Editor
Readers consider Mindful Medicine's cautionary tale about The Blindmen and the Elephant, in which subspecialists each consider a diagnosis within their own field instead of seeing the entire diagnostic picture.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2010/06/letters.htm
1 Jun 2010