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
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
When you look, but don't see the diagnosis
Gradual yet significant change in a woman's appearance, first noticed by a daughter she hadn't seen for a year, leads to the diagnosis of a common yet frequently missed ailment. Why hadn't those who'd seen the woman daily noticed anything? Intuitive vs. deliberative thought processes made all the difference.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2011/01/mindful.htm
1 Jan 2011
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://acpinternist.org/archives/2010/01/mindful.htm
1 Jan 2010
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
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