New primary care series: Easily Missed?

Patients consult doctors with the expectation of an accurate diagnosis and advice on treatment. But in primary care, patients often present with undifferentiated symptoms without an immediately apparent diagnosis. For most conditions this doesn’t matter because the symptoms either resolve or become worse in such a way that the patient returns before any harm is done.1 In consultations, general practitioners work by using the probability that the collection of presenting symptoms reflects …