Medical Xpress January 22, 2026
During a night shift when she was a resident at Yale New Haven Hospital, Cristiana Baloescu was taking care of a patient with a complex presentation of symptoms. The patient was experiencing some back and leg pain. But they also looked really sick.
“Emergency physicians spend years developing the skill to recognize whether a patient looks sick or not,” said Baloescu, now assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine. “With patients who look sick, we spend a lot of time thinking about what’s going on because if they’re doing well now, they probably won’t be doing very well in the next hour or two.”
Luckily, Baloescu figured out what was going on with the patient pretty quickly....
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