The comic · Principles of Biomedical Technology (PBT)

Week 11 of 17

Diagnostic workup

Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.

Drawing, panel 52: Workup components.

Out Monday and Tuesday, so three days carried five days of work. Every part of Unit 2 showed up as one process: history, vitals, bloodwork, genetics.

Panel 52Workup components
Drawing, panel 54: Diagnostic disclosure debate.

How much diagnostic uncertainty should a clinician share? Telling someone about a possibility you have not confirmed can cause real harm from a thing that turns out not to exist.

Panel 54Diagnostic disclosure debate · 2026-10-29
Drawing, panel 55: Cleveland Clinic onboarding.

The Cleveland Clinic onboarding is a real process with real paperwork. Background check, modules, health requirements, in order.

Panel 55Cleveland Clinic onboarding
Drawing, panel 53: Clinical diagnosis team project.

We talked over the one person weighting the patient history. He was right. A detail in the history explained the lab value we had been treating as the main finding.

ME

You said that ten minutes ago and I talked over you. Sorry.

Panel 53Clinical diagnosis team project · 2026-11-04
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