NY Times article praises pathologist

[BU Pathology]

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There is an article in the NY Times about a difficult diagnostic case. A pathology resident followed up and was able to provide the correct diagnosis.

Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated. Then One Doctor Put It All Together.

 

[tiredguy]

They make it sound as if this resident goes through the hospital to find challenging patients, HIPAA be damned, and leaving hidden 11 page notes buried in the chart that solve the case.

 

[jupiterianvibe]

do you know what the crips do if they find that two of their members were fighting in public?

they kick the **** out of both of them.

its not cool to blast your own team in the public eye like that.

 

[Mad Jack]

(Quoted deleted post)

Dingus move, my man

 

[SEpathguy]

You’re both right. Deleted.

 

[doctalaughs]

It’s nice the pathologist helped her, but I would say this patients biggest problem was bad prior doctors seeing her. I guess I’ve seen a few cases of this, but I was thinking the diagnosis was obvious after reading the first few paragraphs of symptoms.

I would think any good internist (or the specialists who saw her- derm/ID etc)— even if they have never heard of Schnitzler’s— would be thinking about something the the periodic fever category and at least go reading.

I guess this is a zebra but the article makes this guy out to be a real-life “house md” when really it’s a matter of having poor medical care prior if it went undiagnosed for years....

 

[y2k_free_radical]

When i typed in the symptoms on google,the disease was the first that showed on search.Unfortunate poor use of available resources imo