A short-form YouTube clip (Robert Whitfield MD) in which two speakers discuss "brain fog" as experienced by patients. They translate lay descriptions (forgetting a child's name, losing keys) into clinical language (short-term memory loss) and note associated features like low energy and effortful thinking; the exchange emphasizes the value of clinicians listening and rephrasing patient reports into diagnostic terms.
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Was upset when I would hear people be critical of the patients by saying, what. What the hell was brain fog? It's so real. And I was like. When someone from the client side said this to me for the first time, I said, okay, so I just need to understand exactly what that means to you. What. What is that? What are you describing to me? And they said, well, I have trouble remembering my kid's name. Yeah, God, I remember that. And then he said, I can't find my keys. Sometimes. I'm like, well, okay, that's short term memory loss. So if you just convey to the. To me, as a provider, if you say short term memory loss, I understand that.
Right.
I don't know what.
The.
Hell.
Brain fog is.
I do now because I see it all the. I understand it from the client side now, but back then, I was like, oh, so it's just short term.
Short term memory loss, plus a lack of energy, like you have to summon the effort to think of something that should just come automatically is also part of it. And short term memory loss, at least that's how I would have described it. Right. It was actually.
You who convinced me to.
Do EEGs. Was it really? That's amazing. So you. You really test for all these things. The. The reason that I wanted to have you on the show today is when I sat down and talked with you a couple months ago, I was just impressed, number one, that you listen to your patients in a way that a lot of physicians don't.
