Brad Tracy

Aug 9, 2024 | medium.com | Brad Tracy

Why is it so cold? “I apologize for the cold, Mr. McCaskill. I shall have it warmed up just for you.”That voice. Do I know that voice? It’s colder than this fucking room. Do I know you? “I do not believe we have been formally introduced, Mr. McCaskill. My name is Dr. Phillips. I hope you will enjoy your stay at my facility.”Mr. McCaskill. He keeps using that name. Is that my name? “You don’t remember your name, do you? I assure you — you are Mr. McCaskill. Mitchell, to be precise.

Sep 15, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Matthew Smith |Jodi Young |Brad Tracy |Jason Soncrant

1 INTRODUCTION Patients with similar diagnoses can have highly variable ‘clinical trajectories’ or prognoses (Tousignant-Laflamme et al., 2022). A prognosis is a prediction of a patient's degree of change or likely status over time (Beattie & Nelson, 2007; Tousignant-Laflamme et al., 2017). Understanding one's prognosis may be useful in avoiding unnecessary care, and reducing medicalisation and overdiagnosis (van der Velden et al., 2020; van Dijk, Faber, Tanke, Jeurissen, & Westert, 2016).