This breakdown of measurement protocols shows how technical rigor directly impacts diagnsosis. The cascade from mismeasurement to polypharmacy is alarming because each step seems rational in isolation. I've seen this play out with elderly relatives who suddenly had a medicine cabinet full of pills, and now I'm wondering how much started from bad baseline data.
Exactly. I just saw something about how a rather substantial chunk of people diagnosed with asthma don't actually have it.
And I do some medical coaching and it's a question I have with some frequency. People have been diagnose with some condition and "treated" for it for decades sometimes, but I see that their diagnosis was far from definitive.
There is almost always a piper to pay with any drug. So many drugs, many pipers.
One of the things I'm going to focus in posts here is ways to instill habits—ways that prepare us to act in ways that will help us create and stick to habits. We need that foundation, the preparing us to act.
It’s in there! And I tell you why using “white coat syndrome” as a reason to get a second read is probably the most effective option you have.
From the post: “A possible perp—right out of the medical literature? ‘White coat syndrome’—being freaked out at getting your blood pressure taken (due to what that could mean for your health) or just being at the doctor’s office.”
This breakdown of measurement protocols shows how technical rigor directly impacts diagnsosis. The cascade from mismeasurement to polypharmacy is alarming because each step seems rational in isolation. I've seen this play out with elderly relatives who suddenly had a medicine cabinet full of pills, and now I'm wondering how much started from bad baseline data.
Exactly. I just saw something about how a rather substantial chunk of people diagnosed with asthma don't actually have it.
And I do some medical coaching and it's a question I have with some frequency. People have been diagnose with some condition and "treated" for it for decades sometimes, but I see that their diagnosis was far from definitive.
There is almost always a piper to pay with any drug. So many drugs, many pipers.
One of the things I'm going to focus in posts here is ways to instill habits—ways that prepare us to act in ways that will help us create and stick to habits. We need that foundation, the preparing us to act.
Don’t forget white coat anxiety!
It’s in there! And I tell you why using “white coat syndrome” as a reason to get a second read is probably the most effective option you have.
From the post: “A possible perp—right out of the medical literature? ‘White coat syndrome’—being freaked out at getting your blood pressure taken (due to what that could mean for your health) or just being at the doctor’s office.”
Interesting.
They take my blood pressure when I have been fasting for blood work. I'm starving, it's up.