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Well, sometimes the symptoms you have may not always match up with the illness you
think you have and joining us now to talk more about correctly diagnosing
an illnesses is doctor Nabin Sapkota of
columbus community hospital and thanks for joining us today. Thank you.
Yeah, good to have you here.
How can interpretation of symptoms sometimes lead to an inaccurate
diagnosis?
well, when you interpret symptoms just us by itself not thinking about the
details of the patient,
it can lead to incorrect diagnosis.
If you think about symptoms in isolation, that can lead to incorrect
diagnosis.
uh... lets say
uh... you have two different patients they can have the exact same symptoms
but they can have completely different diagnosis based on the context.
if youÉ you have to know your patient
very well
you have to know a lot about your patient in order to uh... analyze what
uh...
a particular symptom
symptoms suggest in that individual patient
uh... for example I once had a patient about two years ago
he was thought to have
a seizure.
But the way he described his symptoms was kind of odd and the onset
actually suggested a more of a circulatory problem than and a neurological
problem
so we were worried that something might be going on in his chest and we scanned his
chest and he was found to have an aortic dissection.
well uh... seizure is not listed as a symptom of aortic dissection
anywhere
but we were able to get the right diagnosis because we just didn't look at
the symptom
but we actually looked at how he described it and we tried to make some
sense out of it. So probably important for patients to actually know what they're
feeling and try to
you know talk about that with their doctor in a very clear and concise way
so the doctor can make a better diagnosis well believe it or not
we are out of time
thanks for joining us today and talking to us a little bit today thanks for
coming from columbus community hospital we appreciate it. Thank you for
having me. We're back in a moment with a final look at your forecast.