#Diagnosis

Today was a great day. Perhaps one of my best as a pathologist. Let me tell you why. /Thread. #pathology About two years ago, I signed out a placenta on
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Ah, fresh new research. An interesting one. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00406-020-01189-w.pdf about misdiagnosis of autistic adults. Sample of people diagnosed as adults:161 adults, 47 of them female. Females diagnosed av
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SELF AUTISM DX:A Thread -I was initially self diagnosed. I watched my parents go through HELL with my brother. Dan was born in 1980. At the age of 3, someone
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It’s been a full year since I found a breast lump that resulted in a cancer diagnosis at the age of 28.Some facts about my experience getting diagnosed:- The doctor
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I keep seeing now people going up to random white touretters and accusing them of having an n word tic whether they have it or not and like......???Do y'all think
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The UCP are taking away presumptive PTSD coverage from most #Alberta workers. During a pandemic...As of Friday, it will be harder for the frontline heroes carrying our province through COVID-19
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The following are biological facts:Sex is binary.Mammalian cells have a sex (M/F).A much longer thread than usual based upon a recent Q & A regarding the importance of Sex in
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Can we talk about the curse of being a "gifted" kid while having undiagnosed ADHD? Has anyone else survived this specially crafted hell?#adhd #neurodiversesquad Beyond the torment ofADHD symptoms, add
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Dr. Karl Gaffney on the impact of the delay to diagnosis in #axSpA #ACR20 #axSpA delay to diagnosis in the UK - estimates from prior studies #ACR20 https://twitter.com/rheum_cat/status/1318235472489971712?s=20#ACR20 Poor awareness
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Important point about post-hoc decision analysis Similarly, just because the outcome was good doesn’t mean decisions were right / a mistake wasn’t made.I find helpful the analogies of decision-making (and
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Regardless of how we personally feel about psychiatric categorisation systems, I do* think ignoring patterns, constellations & structures it entirely misconceived. I do not personally think the label ‘personality disorder’
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Professor of neurosurgery vs professor of Neuroradiology.The game: interpretation of brain CT scans, MRI/MRA.Who takes this home? The Maxillofacial surgeon vs the plastic surgeon.The comparison?Who repairs cleft lip and palate
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Share your #ItsInYourHead medical stories & what it actually ended up being. We gotta talk about this more cuz it happens so often & we keep things quiet & internalize
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Interesting case (from our archives!) to start the week: A woman in her 60s with asthma and chronic rhinitis presents with a new morbilliform rash on trunk & extremities. Skin
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There's a lot of discussion whether "trans is real," or, if "trans is real," whether detransitioners were ever "really trans." But before those discussions can meaningfully take place, there needs
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I wonder what would happen if the members of the #FreeBritney movement started focusing their attention on protesting not just Spear's situation but the way guardianships and conservatorships are run
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