The Exam You Can't Trust

Send us Fan MailA patient presents with fever, headache, and neck stiffness. The physician diagnoses viral syndrome and does not perform a lumbar puncture. The patient deteriorates rapidly. Explores the anchoring bias and availability heuristic that drive diagnostic failure, the low sensitivity of classic meningeal exam signs, and a $27M verdict (Dudley v. UnityPoint, Iowa 2022).Support the show

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