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Every doctor carries along her/his own little graveyard. Inevitably, we make mistakes. People die, or become disabled. You never forget those patients. 1/n
In my first year of training there was a 20yo woman with stage IV lymphoma (DLBCL). She was clinically fine but I overlooked her creatinin which showed severe CKD from diuretics. 1w later she came in with heart block from betablocker overdose and died. 2/n
An older woman during training was admitted after a fall. She complained of shoulder pain -> no fracture. Next day she was paraplegic from spinal fracture. She hadn't complained about her back and I missed that. 3/n
