Search results for "Mindful Medicine"
Melding intuition with deliberation to sidestep diagnostic traps
Would you pass “the eyeball test” if the patient in this case study presented in your hospital's emergency department? Find out how one physician pressed for a better answer on a patient who presented with cardiac pain but no evidence of a heart attack.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/mindful.htm
15 Mar 2009
Attribution error results from a positive stereotype
Doctors are more likely to make attribution errors when patients fit a negative stereotype. This case involves a patient who was doing everything “right.”.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/mindful.htm
15 Apr 2011
When the findings don't fit
A Fellow investigates a young woman's elevated testosterone level and reaches a diagnosis even though the lab results and imaging conflict. Our diagnostic experts consider confirmation bias and how this internist sidestepped being misled.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/mindful.htm
15 Jan 2010
Uncertain diagnosis leads doctor to dig further
Our columnists address the emotional consequences of diagnoses.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/mindful.htm
15 Dec 2009
Start at the top to get to the bottom of a diagnosis
Our columnists explain the “top downâ€ï¿½ or “working forwardâ€ï¿½ approach.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/mindful.htm
15 Jul 2009
Unmasking the patient's hidden agenda
A patient’s reply of “so-soâ€ï¿½ regarding her depression leads a doctor to dig deeper.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/mindful.htm
15 Sep 2009
Seeing the whole picture
An internist sidesteps anchoring and availability to arrive at the correct diagnosis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/04/mindful.htm
15 Apr 2010
Thinking about our thinking as physicians
Drs. Groopman and Hartzband reflect on their Mindful Medicine column and look toward the future.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/10/mindful.htm
15 Oct 2011
A case of attribution error
Our columnists discuss the case of a 71-year-old obese woman whose mental status deteriorated rapidly while in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/09/mindful.htm
15 Sep 2010
Letter from the editor
Most hospitalists comanage surgical patients as part of their day-to-day responsibilities, but the hows, whens and whys of a comanagement relationship can vary from hospital to hospital and even from physician to physician.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/editor.htm
15 Mar 2009