The Importance of Validating Patients' Concerns

The bowels have a nervous system and we know objectively that there's something wrong with the way that the inter-derick nervous system is connecting and communicating with the central nervous system. So my first step is always to validate the patients, to validate their pain, their diarrhea, their discomfort and to tell them that they are common. And then you kind of consider in the back of your mind, especially if it's a young patient, these more rare, like VIP tumors or glucagonomas which can be super relevant on board exam.