KevinMD March 15, 2024
Joshua Reischer, MD

As physicians, we’re trained to dig into a patient’s story to make a diagnosis. Ideally, we have time to get to know the person in front of us and get a comprehensive understanding of the reason for their visit. In an ideal world, we have the information we need to make an accurate diagnosis and set them on a treatment pathway that will improve their quality of life.

That’s the aspiration. The reality is that most of that visit will be spent trying to determine the basics – the fundamental pieces of information we should have had before the visit began.

An elderly woman came into my clinic for a visit a few years ago, lugging around a plastic bag...

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