Quote Originally Posted by ruffianxc View Post

I'm a 4th year med student and I shadowed in a sports medicine clinic for 2 years. I don't know a lot but I did see this.
It's amazing; the longer I practice, the less I know.

One valuable thing I've learned over the years: a patient will present with one problem, but most of the time that one problem has more than one cause. Patients with only one issue don't come in, their body copes so they don't seek medical help. When the body starts juggling multiple issues, it begins to drop things, and that's when problems show up.

I cringe when I think of the patients I misled and the issues I missed. And in all honesty, I'm probably still misleading and missing. That's why it's called "practice."