Stand beside intensive care unit incubators and look at sick infants. Linger in the observation ward looking and listening. Looking at infants breathing is by far themost instructive skill in assessing respiratory or cardiac problems. Rapid laboured breathing with grunting is almost synony-mous with pneumonia or cardiac failure. Ultimately, the good clinician is the good diagnostician.
Intuition means immediate apprehension by the mind without reasoning.
Immediate insight and instinct may instil innate impulsion. I ve got a good nose for trouble, is how one general practitioner friend sums up this attribute. More likely he possesses good eyes and sharp wits. Fayon M. A short stay observation unit improves care in the paediatric emergency care setting. Field trials of the Baby Check Score card in hsopital.