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A pediatrician looked at a newborn at a routine checkup, decided something was wrong, and sent the baby to the hospital. It turned out to be HSV encephalitis, a deadly brain infection, caught before a single test came back.
The mother later asked her: how did you know?
There is a part of clinical training nobody charts and nobody bills for. You spend years learning the science, and somewhere in those years your eye gets trained alongside it. Eventually you can walk into a room and know, in about two seconds, whether the person in front of you is in real trouble.
It is not magic and it is not a guess. It is pattern recognition built on volume. By the time a physician is allowed to practice independently, they have seen enough sick people that "sick" has a look, a posture, a quality of attention or its absence. The swelling that is wrong. The rash that means something. The newborn who won't engage.
Pediatrics has a name for the simplest version of this. The "smile sign." A baby who grins and delights at you is usually not very sick. A baby with no spark of interest, who won't engage with you at all, is a serious concern. It is not in any guideline. It is in the eye of someone who has examined thousands of children.
Worth saving, because it generalizes past medicine: expertise that looks like intuition is almost always compressed experience. The fast, confident, hard-to-explain judgment is not a personality trait. It is the residue of volume. You cannot shortcut the reps, and the most valuable read an expert makes is often the one that never shows up in a metric.
Claire Unis, MD, a pediatrician and author, calls it learning to recognize sick. It is one of the most underrated diagnostic instruments in medicine, and it does not appear on any imaging report.
Listen to the full conversation on The Podcast by KevinMD. Link in the replies.
What is something your training taught your eye to catch before any test could confirm it?
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Isaiah 48:17 : This is what the Lord says—
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you what is best for you,
who directs you in the way you should go.
It is becoming increasingly clear that there are forces strongly opposed to President Tinubu’s administration, regardless of the progress being made.
This only strengthens a deeper conviction for people like us, I believe in him and the future the country is moving toward.
Oh Africa 🤦🏿
Shame on Cyril Ramaphonsa and Xenophobic South Africans.
Nelson Mandela came to Nigeria after he was released from prison to thank Nigerians for our resilient support towards him and black South Africans.