Search results for "Mindful Medicine"
Thinking about our thinking as physicians
Drs. Groopman and Hartzband reflect on their Mindful Medicine column and look toward the future.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/10/mindful.htm
15 Oct 2011
Priming to diagnose an atypical case, avoid representativeness error
Physicians are all taught to recognize disorders based on the classical case. The atypical case is harder to pin down.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/mindful.htm
15 Aug 2011
Attribution error results from a positive stereotype
Doctors are more likely to make attribution errors when patients fit a negative stereotype. This case involves a patient who was doing everything “right.”.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/mindful.htm
15 Apr 2011
When you look, but don't see the diagnosis
Gradual yet significant change in a woman's appearance, first noticed by a daughter she hadn't seen for a year, leads to the diagnosis of a common yet frequently missed ailment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/mindful.htm
15 Jan 2011
When patients don't tell all
Our columnists discuss the diagnostic challenges physicians face when patients omit aspects of their histories.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/10/mindful.htm
15 Oct 2010
A case of attribution error
Our columnists discuss the case of a 71-year-old obese woman whose mental status deteriorated rapidly while in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/09/mindful.htm
15 Sep 2010
Seeing the whole picture
An internist sidesteps anchoring and availability to arrive at the correct diagnosis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/04/mindful.htm
15 Apr 2010
When the findings don't fit
A Fellow investigates a young woman's elevated testosterone level and reaches a diagnosis even though the lab results and imaging conflict. Our diagnostic experts consider confirmation bias and how this internist sidestepped being misled.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/mindful.htm
15 Jan 2010
Uncertain diagnosis leads doctor to dig further
Our columnists address the emotional consequences of diagnoses.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/mindful.htm
15 Dec 2009
Unmasking the patient's hidden agenda
A patient’s reply of “so-soâ€ï¿½ regarding her depression leads a doctor to dig deeper.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/mindful.htm
15 Sep 2009
Start at the top to get to the bottom of a diagnosis
Our columnists explain the “top downâ€ï¿½ or “working forwardâ€ï¿½ approach.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/mindful.htm
15 Jul 2009
It's just old age—or is it?
How might ageism interfere with a correct diagnosis?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/05/mindful.htm
15 May 2009
Melding intuition with deliberation to sidestep diagnostic traps
Would you pass “the eyeball test” if the patient in this case study presented in your hospital's emergency department? Find out how one physician pressed for a better answer on a patient who presented with cardiac pain but no evidence of a heart attack.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/mindful.htm
15 Mar 2009
Mindful medicine: Challenges of treating the physician-patient
Jeffrey Cohn, ACP Member, told us about a case he had seen as a hematology/oncology fellow while at Emory University.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/mindful.htm
15 Jan 2009
Mindful Medicine: When diagnoses get lost in translation
Jerome Groopman, FACP and Pamela Hartzband, FACP review two cases where a patient's use of key words led to anchoring errors in diagnosing an abdominal aortic aneurism and a classic case of intermittent claudication.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/mindful.htm
15 Dec 2008