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IMHO the biggest failure of this patient's case is she has a weird case and mediocre doctors. While I consider myself somewhere to above average to better (I've run organizations, worked with top doctors in the field and was asked to remain on their teams, worked as the psychiatric clerkship director, asked to take over a fellowship as the PD), I know this patient has other doctors that are the types to only spend a few minutes on the case and then pretty much tell the patient "it's all in your head" after they did perfunctory or worse evaluations.
To date I've been able to correctly figure out cases such as black mold poisoning, a prior stroke, cancer, parasitic infections (verified with labs), anti-NMDA encephalitis, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome presenting as psychosis that the patient's PCP missed and the PCP told the patient it was "all in your head." One of those patients is a top level physician who is a retired university professor eminent in her field. I couldn't believe some idiot community hospital doctor treated her as if her neurological condition, verified by 3 separate university neurologists was psychosomatic.
But anyway getting to the point I made 5 attempts to call the patient's PCP and each time no answer from a phone call, and no response to 3 faxes. This is what this poor patient is dealing with, and I'm already confident this is not something her psychiatrist is going to figure out.
To date I've been able to correctly figure out cases such as black mold poisoning, a prior stroke, cancer, parasitic infections (verified with labs), anti-NMDA encephalitis, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome presenting as psychosis that the patient's PCP missed and the PCP told the patient it was "all in your head." One of those patients is a top level physician who is a retired university professor eminent in her field. I couldn't believe some idiot community hospital doctor treated her as if her neurological condition, verified by 3 separate university neurologists was psychosomatic.
But anyway getting to the point I made 5 attempts to call the patient's PCP and each time no answer from a phone call, and no response to 3 faxes. This is what this poor patient is dealing with, and I'm already confident this is not something her psychiatrist is going to figure out.
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