When you hear hoofbeats...

Hello, Doctor Name Withheld to Protect your Practice.

This is your least favorite patient. You remember me... the one who comes in with the flu (in July) and winds up almost dead in the hospital with both pneumonia and internal bleeding? Yeah, that one.

I know the saying in medicine is "When you hear hoof beats think horses, not zebras". I understand that the majority of times the things you see are routine and common to the vast majority of patients.

That doesn't mean zebras are extinct.