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By John Hwang MD, Shira Sachs MD, Steven R. Liu MD, Janine Knudsen MD, Cindy Fang MD || Illustration by Michael Shen MD || Audio Editing by Richard Chen
For transcript and full show notes: https://www.coreimpodcast.com/2019/05/22/hoofbeats-a-23m-with-ams-and-fever/
Time Stamps
- 02:04 Initial Presentation
- 03:03 The CoreIM team tackles the case
- 09:30 Social History
- 16:05 Physical Exam
- 22:47 An exercise in Bayesian inference
- 36:35 Pre-mortem
- 43:37 Revealing the diagnosis
- 48:57 How do we define diagnostic success?
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