I consider making the proper diagnosis the epitome of internal medicine (as well as many other specialties.) We know that we often miss diagnoses, but we often do not know why. This article gives a classic example of medical error.
If you see nothing wrong, try again. It took us several tries.
This case is an example of “a horse masquerading as a zebra.” Why didn’t we see the horse? To help answer the question, Dr. Ginsberg uses this picture of how the mind may not perceive a visual abnormality.
1 comments:
in a setting where autopsies are rare i think audit on interesting cases can throw light on physician decisions and errors if any and help reduce the error from happening again
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