A new take on an old favorite

[KarenNWendyn]

What we say to patients worried about ALS:
“ALS is unlikely given your exam and normal EMG. You don’t have ALS.”

What patients worried about ALS hear:
“ALS blah, blah, ALS, blah, blah, ALS...”

 

[wishmobbing]

True! Maybe positive reassurance is the only thing having a remote chance to trickle through the anxiety.

Normal, normal, normal, healthy, sleep, sleep, sleep.

 

[Clearwater AL]

Not saying anything against the poster but...

"I feel like this neurologist has provided information contradictory of what I have read online."

The highly educated, highly trained, world renown Neurologist... Dr. Google.