An Essence of Medical Practice

In modern medicine, physicians are preservers and restorers of body balance. Much of this work involves diagnostics. How is information gathered? What role does pattern recognition play vs complex analysis of possibilities? What if things remain unclear?
Join us and explore how physicians use patient history, physical examination, and laboratory tests to form a hypothesis for treatment.
June 8: Body balance, disease, and doctoring
June 15: Formulating a hypothesis of disease process
June 22: Confirming a hypothesis by laboratory testing/imaging
June 29: Examining the brain: psychiatry and neurology
July 6: Personalized, precision therapy
July 13: Links between diseases: immunity, metabolism & aging
July 20: Emergency and critical care encounters
Presenter: Stanley Misler, MD, PhD
Emeritus Faculty, Internal Medicine and Cell Biology / Physiology, Washington University Medical Center