Moral of the story - never dismiss a colleague’s sixth sense, a battle-hardened end product that has been refined through many years of experience. This gut feeling outperforms any blood test or warning score.
This mantra saved me from a near miss today 🙏
For the first time in my career, I gave a patient a lift home today. I might well get into trouble for this, but there was no other option and sometimes common sense and humanity has to shine through.
A lesson in life.
Call from a colleague today…
“Keith, I’ve got a 80 year old man with jaundice and fever from a large 2cm gallstone wedged in the bile duct. He’s on anticoagulation for PE. I just have a bad feeling about him and I think he needs an ERCP today.”
Silver stool is a sign of cancer at the ampulla of Vater (Thomas’ sign). The pale stool from biliary obstruction mix with black stool from melaena to form this spectacular colour
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