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Getting to the Right Question

  • Clinical Practice: Exercises in Clinical Reasoning
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Acknowledgements

This case was described briefly in: Vickrey BG, Samuels MA, Ropper AH. How neurologists think: A cognitive psychology perspective on missed diagnoses. Ann Neurol. 2010 Apr;67(4):425–33.

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  1. Department of Medical Sciences, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, USA

    Todd Cassese MD

  2. Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

    Elizabeth Kaplan MD

  3. Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Vanja Douglas MD

  4. Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Gurpreet Dhaliwal MD

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Cassese, T., Kaplan, E., Douglas, V. et al. Getting to the Right Question. J GEN INTERN MED 28, 1242–1246 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-012-2254-7

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