PA Boards 109: What if you misdiagnose a patient?
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today we're going to be answering a question from a new provider. She's a recent physician assistant graduate and asks what to do if you miss a diagnosis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey what's going on guys and welcome to episode 109 of the physician-assistance.com |
| 0:05.7 | podcast now this podcast is going to be answering a reader's question we're going to be |
| 0:10.3 | discussing what to do if we think we've misdiagnosed a patient. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm going to give you a couple of insights as to what I would do in her situation if I feel |
| 0:18.8 | like I've misdiagnosed a patient. How do I go through the thought process and what is my course of action? |
| 0:24.0 | Now this podcast here is going to be the audio that's stripped from the YouTube episode |
| 0:30.0 | and you can find more YouTube episodes at YouTube. com forward slash PA boards that's PA BOA R D S. |
| 0:39.0 | And if you listen to the last episode I made an announcement where I said I would be starting to record five episodes a day, |
| 0:44.8 | Monday through Friday, starting February. |
| 0:47.5 | Now I don't think I'm going to strip all of the audio content from the YouTube episodes and put |
| 0:51.2 | them on the podcast. So if you're interested in seeing all of the |
| 0:54.3 | episodes you can go to YouTube.com forward slash pea boards subscribe for free and that way you won't miss an |
| 1:00.4 | episode and really what I'm trying to do with these episodes is I'm going to be |
| 1:04.0 | going to be going over various topics I'm going to be answering your questions and I thought this |
| 1:07.2 | would be very helpful for the PA Board's community now I'm going to commit to this |
| 1:10.3 | for a month get some feedback and then we can start tweaking some things and see where we take it from there. |
| 1:15.0 | So again, if you're interested, go to the YouTube channel. That's YouTube. |
| 1:18.0 | That's YouTube.com, forward slash P-boards, starting February, we're going to start producing five episodes a week, Monday through Friday. |
| 1:25.0 | So without further ado, let's get into today's episode. |
| 1:28.0 | Hey what's up guys and today's video I'm going to be answering a question from a |
| 1:35.4 | student who emailed me a couple days back and this question is from Meg so |
| 1:39.6 | we're going to go ahead and I'm going to read the question and then I go ahead |
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