The Working Diagnosis
Chapter 11 Bedside Questions · 6 questions · about 6 minutes
Committing to a diagnosis in the ED: chest pain, MI vs. aortic dissection, written with alternatives ruled out and confidence stated; diagnostic hesitancy as its own pathology.
The working diagnosis, operationally: whether your organization has written down what is wrong, with the alternatives ruled out, before choosing a fix. Answer Yes only when someone can produce the evidence today.
Answer as your executive team would, with the evidence in hand. Each question has a factual answer in a system you already own.
Do you recognize your organization in the six candidate diagnoses; which would your executives have named before, and which now?
Add a note: where is the evidence, or who owns it?
Do you have a working cross-disciplinary, cross-executive synthesis function, or five excellent specialists and no lead physician?
Add a note: where is the evidence, or who owns it?
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The first step is not a purchase. It is an examination of the patient.
The Diagnostician, Chapter 11