88YOF - stroke?

[mycrofft]

"Once you have a working Dx, the treatment is obvious."

Or as the country rube says at the magician' show, "Aw, he had that rabbit hidden in his hat. I could do THAT!". :rofl:

Yeah, obvious if you have training and experience.

 

[Melclin]

Anyhou, it wasn't the point to pick it or anything but for interest's sake, she had an apparently gigantic renal cyst and pneumonia.

 

[mycrofft]

She cough up a kidney?

Exactly what was it that made the daughter think the pt had a stroke?

 

[Melclin]

She cough up a kidney?

Exactly what was it that made the daughter think the pt had a stroke?

It wasn't clear. I think she heard her mother say "weakness" at some stage and took it a bit out of context.

There has been some pretty strong public health campaigns on the topic of stroke recognition recently. I think it might be related to the fact that I've seen several pts lately who have had completely unrelated problems but were quite confident they'd had strokes.

 

[mycrofft]

It wasn't clear. I think she heard her mother say "weakness" at some stage and took it a bit out of context.

There has been some pretty strong public health campaigns on the topic of stroke recognition recently. I think it might be related to the fact that I've seen several pts lately who have had completely unrelated problems but were quite confident they'd had strokes.

Imagine that!
Definitely a first degree case of Hikam's Dictum.