Here is a piece I wrote for Closler on how I talk about a patient’s illness without invoking the battle metaphor #hpm #MedEducation #MedEdMastodon https://closler.org/lifelong-learning-in-clinical-excellence/travelers-on-an-unfamiliar-road
Travelers on an Unfamiliar Road - CLOSLER

I recently gave a talk about how clinicians can guide family meetings. I was very worried. Most of the participants were pretty experienced clinicians and I was nervous. I started talking—a lot. When I finally stopped to ask for questions, one of the first was about responding to the comment, “She’s a fighter.”     The …

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How do we treat these abnormal responses? Anti anginals work. We hope that increased familiarity with testing (provocation tests using intracoronary acetylcholine or coronary flor reserve measurements) will help us identify patients with it first and with this we hope we will get better at tailoring treatments for them!

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A 33-year-old Brazilian man with alcoholic cirrhosis presents with septic shock. Blood cultures are growing Klebsiella pneumoniae. Sputum culture is shown below. #MedEducation #Tootorial