Maybe Accidently Teaching The New Docs Something

[Jestgar]

I frequently go to the noon conferences for the residents, interns and med students. The format is usually Present case, Ask what the possible diagnoses could be, Discuss real cause. Many of the cases presented fit nicely with Celiac, but it's never once been mentioned, until yesterday!!

The case was a women who presented with iron-poor anemia her 50's. As the residents were calling out their possible diagnoses, the guy next to me, who had just watched me eat the inside of a sandwhich after scraping the meat carefully and then wiping it down with a napkin, said "Sprue?"

WooHoo!! One more MD aware of the disease!

(It turned out the the woman had leukemia, which is (I think) much less prevalent than Celiac)

Maybe just being visible is a teaching tool.

[ravenwoodglass]

the guy next to me, who had just watched me eat the inside of a sandwhich after scraping the meat carefully and then wiping it down with a napkin, said "Sprue?"

Any way to get the word out to the medical community is great. But I hope you do not do this scrape the insides out of the poison wrap too often, it really is not safe and you are CCing yourself.