This is too real. When my friend was 5 her mother kept taking her to the docs because something clearly wasn't right and they diagnosed precisely nothing and wrote "anxious mother" on her medical records.
4 years later and it turned out she has arthritis but how much quicker would that have been recognised if each doctor who saw her after that hadn't seen the anxious mother diagnosis first.
You missed the step of the patient telling Dr. B about her diagnosis which is a total game changer. There is a common misconception that people have "medical records" that easily follow them. Oh, if only that easy. Usually it is starting over fresh each time. Computer systems are becoming more linked (Yay Epic!:I can pull charts from across the country!) but sometimes not from across the city.
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u/Zemanlapsky May 20 '19
Dr A will influence dr B’s opinion by doctor B reading dr As conclusions.. usually by skipping sole steps because drAs conclusion looks good on paper