Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

#21 57F with confusion: Hoofbeats segment

Aug 15, 2018
Explore a clinical case of a 57-year-old woman with confusion and word finding difficulties, emphasizing the challenges of diagnosing patients with incomplete medical histories. Delve into a medical mystery involving ambiguous symptoms and the importance of creating multiple causal models for diagnostics. Navigate the complexity of clinical diagnoses and the risks of overfitting data. Unpack the challenges of dealing with diagnostic uncertainty in medicine and the ethical responsibility of sharing uncertainties with patients.
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