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Mindful Medicine: Don't confuse correlation with causation
Fraser asked the patient's husband to bring in “every item in the medicine cabinet.” In this collection, she found large tubs of “Icy Hot.” It turned out that the patient ... Hartzband co-directs the internal medicine subinternship program. Do
July 2008
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.
January 2009
Mindful Medicine: Critical thinking leads to right diagnosis
Yet, modern medicine has largely neglected an important, emerging and highly relevant science—that of cognition. ... A resident in medicine cared for an elderly woman who complained of discomfort under her sternum.
January 2008
Mindful Medicine: Don't let emotion impede right diagnosis
Hartzband co-directs the internal medicine subinternship program. Do you have a case where a medical diagnosis required you to dig beyond the obvious?
September 2008
Letters
Readers respond to Mindful Medicine, Ethics columns. Dr. Groopman's comments about cognition are valuable. ... Volpintesta, FACP. Bethel, Conn. In the first edition of Mindful Medicine (ACP Internist, January 2008) the case of an elderly woman with
February 2008
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about medical marijuana, mindful medicine, pharmaceutical reps, and more. ... Kevin J. Garcia. Albuquerque, N.M. The recent Mindful Medicine article that presented information about leprosy [“When patients don't tell all: The diagnostic
January 2011
When patients don't tell all: The diagnostic challenge
And whether in the United States or in India, indeed in any part of the globe, we should be mindful of how certain social prejudices may limit the accuracy of the ... Hartzband co-directs the internal medicine subinternship program. Do you have a case
October 2010
Attribution error confounds a diagnosis after colon cancer
Following a hospital admission, the internal medicine resident reviews the patient's history for the clue to the right diagnosis. ... Hartzband co-directs the internal medicine subinternship program. Do you have a case where a medical diagnosis required
July 2010
Anchoring errors ensue when diagnoses get lost in translation
Hartzband co-directs the internal medicine subinternship program. Do you have a case where a medical diagnosis required you to dig beyond the obvious?
November 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. ... I read the most recent Mindful Medicine
June 2010