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Table 1 Patient cases

From: Details acquired from medical history and patients’ experience of empathy – two sides of the same coin

 

Case description

Diagnosis

Case 1

5-year-old girl with fatigue and abdominal pain (case was presented by her worried mother)

Coeliac disease

Case 2

53-year-old man with increasing weakness and haemoptoe

Wegener’s granulomatosis

Case 3

58-year-old woman with abdominal pain

Perforated sigmoid diverticulitis

Case 4

65-year-old woman with difficulties to speak and to swallow (accompanied by her husband)

Myasthenia gravis

Case 5

36-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis and fever

Varicella zoster infection

  1. Description and diagnoses of the five patient cases.