Description: chronically curious
chronically curious
Patients will often withhold information from their medical providers for numerous reasons. It could either be due to the embarrassment, the idea that it may not be important, the fear of getting into trouble, or protecting someone else. There were reasons all across the board. It can be quite difficult for medical providers to properly treat a patient if patients do not inform providers of all the circumstances. Medical providers are not there to judge the patient. They are not there to scold patients for
But as a 13 year old in middle school, I can see why medical professionals seem scary -especially in front of parents. It was another afternoon in the ER when we met our 13 year old male patient who was accompanied by his mother for abdominal pain. More specifically, the pain was regional to the left-sided flank area with no associated symptoms. The initial suspicion for flank pain is usually kidney stones. Although kidney stones are more common in adults (for numerous reasons such as certain prescription m