Authors: Kara Bischoff Shilpa M Shah Gurpreet Dhaliwal Harry Hollander
Publish Date: 2014/04/01
Volume: 29, Issue: 9, Pages: 1310-1314
Abstract
In this series a clinician extemporaneously discusses the diagnostic approach regular text to sequentially presented clinical information bold Additional commentary on the diagnostic reasoning process italic is interspersed throughout the discussionIn a young healthy person with fever and rash three disease categories deserve immediate consideration infectious noninfectious inflammatory and environmental or toxin mediated disease Important elements of the history include epidemiologic clues to severe infection such as seasonality geographic setting and recent travel sexual and dietary habits and exposure to ill contacts animals or insectsStudies demonstrate that physicians form hypotheses within the first 30 seconds of encountering a patient12Here the discussant takes a very limited amount of information and constructs a framework of disease categories that will govern his information
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