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Over the years, I have met one-legged patients with “pulses intact in both feet” and others with “heart sounds normal, no murmur or gallop” whose mechanical heart valve’s clicks and murmurs are so loud that the patient in the next bed demands earplugs
The reason for these errors? Most of them resulted from exams that simply weren’t done as claimed. “Food poisoning” was diagnosed because the strangulated hernia in the groin was overlooked, or patients were sent to the catheterization lab for chest pain because no one saw the shingles rash on the left chest.
Over the years, I have met one-legged patients with “pulses intact in both feet” and others with “heart sounds normal, no murmur or gallop” whose mechanical heart valve’s clicks and murmurs are so loud that the patient in the next bed demands earplugs
The reason for these errors? Most of them resulted from exams that simply weren’t done as claimed. “Food poisoning” was diagnosed because the strangulated hernia in the groin was overlooked, or patients were sent to the catheterization lab for chest pain because no one saw the shingles rash on the left chest.
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