Two people discuss why patients don't realize they have serious medical conditions and what happens when expected health improvements don't occur. They explore the emotional toll on both patients and doctors when something underlying goes undiagnosed.
What have you done in the circumstances of people not realizing that they have a medical condition yet? How. Have you had those crucial. Or have you had to have those crucial conversations with them where you have asked yourself, well, maybe there's an underlying condition that we need to dig a little deeper into. How has that worked?
Yeah, it hasn't happened too often, like, maybe a handful, you know, maybe five times or so so far. But it's. It's been. It's been very difficult. And the first time it happened, it felt like. Until I realized that it could be something else, I really felt like a failure. I felt like, wow, like, they're. They're doing the things that, you know, I'm. I'm asking them to do. Like, they're not. They're not lying to me. They're not, you know, creating their food log and not including all the soda and chips and all the stuff, and. And things are not happening. Like, what's going on here? I felt like I was the failure. And then, you know, kind of talking to colleagues and doing some research and looking around, I was like, oh, well, there might be something more going on here, so let me just refer them out to their doctor.
