title: That 'gut feeling'.
abstract: Upper abdominal pain can be a dilemma in general practice. Sometimes the likely diagnosis is clear in your mind after the first sentence of the patient's history is revealed--and only gets confirmed the further you delve into the history and examination. On other occasions the diagnosis is far more elusive. In this issue of Australian Family Physician, Sprio Tsipouras raises the importance of the doctor's 'gestalt' in managing these elusive cases. What is gestalt? How do we develop it?
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: O'Shea
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D005863:Gestalt Theory; D006801:Humans; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000523:psychology*