Be careful of the labels we assign our patients
Reducing the essence of a human being to a single sentence is impossible, but in taking care of patients, we doctors do it all the time
The one-liner attempts to summarize an individual and an illness into a single, typically run-on, sentence to expedite communication. It is a thesis statement for your diagnosis. Word choice and omission are critical. By the end of this thesis statement, your audience, in spite of …
