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Drug seekers, frequent fliers, GOMERS and hypocondriacs tend to die of the same things everyone else does (except for the occasional one who dies of a complication of medial procedure).
The pt was very lucky. Where I work, radiology would have refused to do the CT – she’s had so many already that we normal.
How many times are we supposed to work up the same complaint?
Sometimes the song seems the same, but a variations is added. Here there was new, if you listened for it. The patient was fortunate indeed to have an unbiased doctor notice her NEW history of recent trauma, and the new, unusual fainting spell that motivated her to appear in to the ER….and she wasn’t in for the usual management of pain. So the labs and that gut feeling about her appearance weren’t just dismissed.
anon 8:09, I guess it is lucky for you, and your radiologist, that this patient went to a real ER with a real doc. working there.
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