The human body has adapted over a thousand years of evolution to the vertical position, only when we rest we feel more comfortable lying down. The force of gravity has a strong influence over our body and with every movement we are spending energy fighting against it. Continue reading The importance of the vertical line: when a patient can´t stand-up
Doctors are used to categorize different problems and they give them a name, a specific disease or a syndrome. Medical textbooks are a catalog of these entities, but there are other important “diagnoses” around a patient during his or her stay in a hospital, some physical some psychological that have a direct influence on the final outcome.
Continue reading Five conditions that a doctor can miss: the other diagnoses
John was happy. He was 21 years-old and studying the second course of a Medical School, his dream since he was a teenager. Biking, swimming, were an important time in his live. But everything was going to change in a second.
Continue reading A new diagnosis each month (4): pain, pain, pain.
Continue reading Cutaneous signs: an opportunity for a diagnosis
A 57-years-old man with a diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer with a mass located in the posterior area of the left lung. He was transferred to the hospital because he felt suddenly a sensation of Continue reading Clinical reasoning in practice: a change in the voice
Nagore was a normal child until she was sixteen. Well, not exactly “normal” because from the beginning she had a special taste for music and for painting, and at the school, she was considered Continue reading A new diagnosis each month (3): a broken body, a difficult diagnosis
