So, you know how it goes in clinic? Fool’s Rule #1: The more complaints a patient has, the less likely anything real is actually happening to them. When a patient comes in with a laundry list of chief complaints, your eyes begin to glaze over, and you can’t help but wonder what you’re going to have for dinner.
The Fool was in clinic recently, and found a patient complaining of vague abdominal pain, some nausea/vomitting, diarrhea, multiple ER visits (always a bad sign!), and it turns out that hypercalcemia may be tied up in the cause of all that! The workup is in progress, but I’ll let you know how it turns out!
And on a side note, the Fool has received the first check from a new nighttime moonlighting job (still within the ACGME work hours!), yay!! Time to go food shopping!
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(Thursday October 9,2003 - 6:50 pm)Squirrel Factor: (#somatic complaints+#allergies)x10/age
4: assign a med student to complete a full H&P and write it up both by system and by problem