Day 1 – Introduction (1/4)
Information from day 1 can be found here.
Intro HW questions can be found here. (Due Thurs 1/7 or Fri 1/8)
The diagnostic team has a three-fold plan for the patient:
- Trying to convince the patient to get treatment
- Talk to available family members
- Switch the attending physician
- Have a therapist talk to the patient and assess her mental state
- Offer anxiety medication to the patient
- Take an extended patient history
- Family health history
- Patient health history
- History of drug use
- Diet details
- Full description of nausea symptoms
- Work with the data we have
- Retest patient blood for type, viruses, bacteria, dehydration
- Retest donor blood for type, viruses, bacteria
- Ask patient if she would give a urine sample (noninvasive!)
- Covertly collect a saliva sample
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