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[...] through our extensive discussion (and the initial blood pressure check), we have fulfilled all of the medical interventions that scientific evidence has validated as helpful for a healthy patient. For a healthy person, an 'abnormal finding' on physical exam is more likely to be a false positive than a real sign of illness. [...] a normal physical exam cannot reassure a patient that there is no disease lurking in the shadows

While a new intern looked to me for guidance -- me with a scant single year more experience -- I placed the patient on an intravenous insulin drip. The senior resident wrenched the pen from my hand and furiously wrote orders to restart the insulin drip immediately and to administer long-acting insulin along with calcium and bicarbonate to avoid cardiac arrest from dangerously skewed potassium and acid levels

'Miz Ofri,' he'd always call out to me from the waiting room, his choice of appellation an endearing mix of Southern manners and the reality of Bronx casual. The social worker connected me to the surgeon, who told me that the hernia had become a strangled a knot of intestine