Gastroenterological stories from the general practitioner consulting room: questions and perhaps also answers
2004
Abstract
I have chosen 2 patients from my practice to show that gastrointestinal signs are sometimes in the foreground of the subjective complaints of the patients but may not correspond to the objective findings. Both their case reports result in conclusions, clear to any GP, that perfect knowledge of the patient and perfect examination of the patient is the basis for minimizing two elementary mistakes.
One is to let oneself be mislead by the first diagnosis and stop thinking of other possible problems of the patient, the other is to make a patient out of the person with all the negatives this implies.