The Three-Minute Wait
The fellow had been managing the patient for nine visits. Chronic cervical pain — onset gradual, no clear mechanism, duration measured in months rather than weeks. The initial evaluation had […]
The Disciplined Allocation
The patient was thirty-four years old. Four days of low back pain after helping a friend move apartments. No prior episodes. No radiating symptoms. Slept reasonably well the first two […]
The Noticing
Three weeks out of residency, and the morning schedule looked like any other. Eight patients. The first was a forty-four-year-old with low back pain — onset after lifting at work, […]
The Entrustment Question
The resident had been in the program for five months when the case appeared on a Monday morning schedule. Forty-one years old, construction work, low back pain radiating into the […]
