Host Dr. Aditi Nerurkar sits down with Dr. Jeremy Faust, emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and editor in chief of MedPage Today, to trace what actually moves (and doesn't) when one clinician hands a patient to the next. They start with the shorthand. A phrase like "second trope and go" compresses an entire risk stratification into four words, and the person receiving that patient has to trust it completely or start the workup over. From there the conversation widens. What does a patient experience on the other side of that same handoff, and what can care providers do make sure patients stay in partnership with their health teams, even across specialties or departments.

Host Dr. Aditi Nerurkar sits down with Dr. Jeremy Faust, emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and editor in chief of MedPage Today, to trace what actually moves (and doesn't) when one clinician hands a patient to the next. They start with the shorthand. A phrase like "second trope and go" compresses an entire risk stratification into four words, and the person receiving that patient has to trust it completely or start the workup over. From there the conversation widens. What does a patient experience on the other side of that same handoff, and what can care providers do make sure patients stay in partnership with their health teams, even across specialties or departments.

Every misdiagnosis–or missed diagnosis–has a story. The Blind Spot goes looking for it. Each episode goes back to the beginning, as physicians revisit the cases that kept them up at night and patients recount the persistence it took to finally break through a diagnostic wall. The clues were often there. The question is why no one connected them.

From systemic biases where a woman's chronic pain is dismissed as "emotional," to conditions that present differently across diverse patient populations, to the incredible administrative pressures facing providers doing their best. 

The Blind Spot reveals what it takes to see what medicine almost missed — and what it costs when we aren’t seeing each other clearly across the exam room.

Every misdiagnosis&ndash;or missed diagnosis&ndash;has a story. The Blind Spot goes looking for it. Each episode goes back to the beginning, as physicians revisit the cases that kept them up at night and patients recount the persistence it took to finally break through a diagnostic wall. The clues were often there. The question is why no one connected them.
From systemic biases where a woman's chronic pain is dismissed as "emotional," to conditions that present differently across diverse patient populations, to the incredible administrative pressures facing providers doing their best.&nbsp;
The Blind Spot reveals what it takes to see what medicine almost missed &mdash; and what it costs when we aren&rsquo;t seeing each other clearly across the exam room.

The Blind Spot with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

"Second Trope and Go": Dr. Jeremy Faust on the Language of the Handoff

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