Dooley Noted: 5/23/2014
One thing a patient never wants to hear is that his or her presentation is “complicated.”
When doctors state that, you can bet they don’t have a clue what is going on with the patient. They cast the patient off as complicated, out of fear of admitting they simply don’t know.
It’s called “practice” for a reason. You’re still a qualified professional if you check your ego at the door and admit you don’t know everything.
I sure don’t know everything. I never will.
But I don’t get caught up in that web. It blinds you from accessing what you DO know.
I want the “hard” cases, so I can search for the simplicity others missed by casting someone off as a “complicated case.”
Simple things often get missed. I can’t even count the number of cases I’ve seen when no one analyzed the patient’s breathing, gait, sit to stand, lay to sit, or pick up test.
The essentials of daily living weren’t even assessed, so how can one be deemed complicated?
You aren’t complicated. You have simple things that can improve.
Improve the simple, and complication often diminishes in it’s intensity.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley