u/Emotional_Snow4016

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My hesitation harmed a patient

I'm an intern on nights. Admitted a patient who developed stroke like symptoms several hours later. Got the stat head CT and it looked a bit concerning. My senior didnt seem too concerned so held off calling a Code stroke.

Patient eventually got a thrombectomy in the morning. But if I had called the neurologist then itself, maybe he would've had better outcome?

At the end of intern year, and I feel like I should've been able to take the initiative. Now this mistake is all I can think about.

How do I get over this?

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u/Emotional_Snow4016 — 27 days ago