I teach the first year medical students about breathlessness. I also teach the FY docs, ST docs, nurses, physios, and anyone who’ll listen, about breathlessness. I’m a stickler for minutiae, so I spend at least one slide, usually a couple, teaching, then reminding, that breathlessness is a symptom, not a sign. One cannot tell if […]
Month: January 2015
NEJM Images in Medicine This Week
A nice image in medicine in the NEJM this week – not something we see a lot, but my radiology colleagues are always telling us to look under the diaphragm, behind the heart, and behind the clavicles. Nice example of why they’re right. Sometimes. […]