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“..I don't count Jennifer among my mistakes. She had a severe infection and precious little reserve. Nevertheless, I think of her often. Those minutes of terror and confusion I felt standing powerless in her room served as a visceral reminder throughout my training... that the big picture isn't enough in medicine...”
― Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
― Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
“The basic sciences of anatomy, physiology, biology, and chemistry are linked to a patient at the bedside through very specific stories that doctors learn and eventually create. These stories, what researchers now call illness scripts, contain key characteristics of a disease to form an iconic version, an idealized model of that particular disease. … It is the story that every doctor puts together for herself with the knowledge she gains from books and patients. The more experience a doctor has with any of these illnesses, the richer and more detailed the illness script she has of the disease becomes.”
― Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
― Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
“A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.”
― Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
― Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
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