Comment by warmwaffles

5 hours ago

> quickly text a colleague.

This is still common and useful to gut check and make sure you aren't missing something. Source: wife is a doctor.

Does she think this really does the complexity of each case justice though? I doubt you can compress an anamnesis into a two-liner without losing essential data.

  • > Does she think this really does the complexity of each case justice though?

    Do you believe that -prior to the 2020-ish mass evacuation of doctors from the profession- the typical specialist would misrepresent the facts of a case when asking for a cross-check?

    Related: Have you ever worked as "the guys who actually work on the thing"-level tech support for a nontrivial Enterprise Software Product (or System)? If you have, did you never send a quick message to a knowledgeable coworker to double-check something that you were pretty sure was correct, but weren't 100% certain about?