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REBOOT #49 Vertigo and Dizziness: How to Treat, Who to Send Home, and Who Might Have a Stroke

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Is It So Hard for Patients to Describe Dizziness?

Vestibular system is the six sense. We actually have six major senses, not five. Only time we become aware of it is when we do silly things like ou nor spinning ourselves around in circles and going on carnival rides that are not typical stimuli. There's also a problem with the way we use different words to mean different things. One person says vertigo, and they mean one thing. The same person somebody else say vertigo, they mean something different. So there are a lot of reasons why this is tough to kind of pin people down and to to break in.

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