its just a tough job isn't it
when 90% of what we see has a pre-test probability of significant
treatable morbidity of less than 1%
and reassurance is hard work
and regularly we review and review......... til the pre test probability
is high enough to goad us into action, reluctantly of course
and the _cancer_ comes to light
and in the eyes of the world we've neen a tardy, unsympathetic bugger,
sorely lacking in clinical acumen, that 'sixth sense'.
so
we need defensive force fields of titanium to keep riding along
and distractions to lighten us up
owen dempsey
GP
West Yorks
UK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John D Dalton
> Sent: 11 October 1998 11:03
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Excessive sweating
>
>
> In article <[log in to unmask]>, the following
> appeared:-
>
> >>J McGuire wrote:
> >>
> >>> >I've seen a few patients recently, all elderly,
> >>Then why aren't we all doing the same when theres's nothing
> wrong with
> >>us?
> >
> >Well, when did you last see a GP for a limb pain that you had had for
> >less than 2 weeks (for many read less than 2 days), for which you
> >hadn't taken any pain killers.....
> >That's why!
> >
> If the patients believe they will receive a "You are complaining but
> there is nothing wrong with you" attitude, they may avoid
> bringing their
> problems at all. It may be that you will first see them at
> the cemetry
> gates.
> --
> John D Dalton
>
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