Elemental Dear Watson: Easy Clinical Reasoning
Clinical Summary A 72-years-old woman was diagnosed with left breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and mastectomy. Three months after
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Category: Clinical Reasoning
Case analysis under the concepts of Diagnostic Improvement, showing the cognitive and systemic biases implicated in a Diagnostic problem.
A clinical vignette of perception bias: when the uncommon ghange your judgment
Clinical Case A- 63-years-old woman had a diagnosis of disseminated lung cancer diagnosed three years before. She had bone metastases
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Antibiotics: uncommon side effects and diagnostic error
Antibiotics are used every day in all medical facilities around the world. The perception of a high level of safety
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Resist and not give up: the key to fighting premature closure
A 62-year-old woman went to the Emergency Department(ED) with a colicky pain located in the abdominal right upper quadrant with
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Clinical case: non-productive cough at bedtime, disappears upon rising
CLINICAL CASE A 75-year-old man with a diagnosis of biliary adenocarcinoma started, during his stay at the hospital,
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A silent enemy that you have to look for. Without symptoms there is no diagnosis
CLINICAL CASE Patient: A 68-year-old male patient, with high blood pressure under control Previous Diagnosis: Follicular lymphoma (2013) stage IIA,
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