RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Counting Backward by Seven
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 561
OP 562
DO 10.1370/afm.2607
VO 18
IS 6
A1 Rebecca E. MacDonell-Yilmaz
YR 2020
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/18/6/561.abstract
AB I delayed my neurology rotation in medical school because I was trying to ignore the symptoms of dementia developing in my mother. They became painfully apparent when I saw my parents less frequently after I moved away for residency, and finally had to be addressed when I had a child of my own and felt unsafe having her care for him. Through my experiences with her and in my training in palliative care and oncology, I have learned that tools like the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Functional Assessment Staging Test (FAST) can only tell us so much; the true measure of a patient’s decline can be found in the patient’s and family’s own story.