The timeless art of diagnostic reasoning
The patient was in her forties. She experienced chest pain, but it did not appear to be “classic.” Her ECG was normal. Her labs did not raise alarms. The team leaned toward anxiety. Hours later, she went into cardiac arrest from a heart attack. That silence after the code still stays with me. We anchored on the first test. We closed the case too early. We stopped listening to her …
The timeless art of diagnostic reasoning
