For doctors11 min read
How to learn from similar cases
How clinical case matching works, plus a copyable diagnostic time-out checklist to compare differences, challenge a working diagnosis, and plan follow-up.
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Clinical case templates, checklists, and patient guides
Copyable tools for writing, protecting, finding, and discussing clinical case narratives, sharing a medical story safely, and preparing a peer discussion—and for preparing a symptom timeline or specialist visit. Every page states its limits clearly: education and better questions, never remote diagnosis.
Put the reasoning into practice
Use a constructed case challenge to test alternatives, then follow the original case and its evidence. Keep up with public learning updates in your feed reader.
For doctors
Contribute accountable, de-identified cases and use similarity retrieval as a disciplined aid to recall and reasoning.
For doctors10 min read
How to share a case without names
Learn from real cases shared by patients and doctors. Compare the details and discuss useful ideas with the doctor caring for you.
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How to remove names from medical scans (DICOM)
De-identify DICOM images across headers, burned-in pixels, private tags, UIDs, dates, facial features, validation, and audit records.
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How to Verify a Doctor Online: Medical Register Checklist
Check a doctor in an official medical register, distinguish identity from registration, and learn what a verified badge can and cannot prove.
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How to write a clear case summary or referral
Learn from real cases shared by patients and doctors. Compare the details and discuss useful ideas with the doctor caring for you.
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How to find similar cases
Find similar clinical cases in PubMed and case libraries using timelines, discriminating features, reusable searches, and careful comparison.
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Places to discuss medical cases
A neutral comparison of MedShr, Figure 1, Sermo, Docquity, and SameCase by audience, case workflow, discovery model, privacy questions, and best-fit use.
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How to describe a case for discussion
A privacy-first template for presenting a clinical case to peers: lead with the question, preserve the timeline, and separate facts from inference.
Read guideFor patients and caregivers
Prepare a clearer story and better questions for your own clinical team without mistaking an online case for a personal answer.
For patients & caregivers12 min read
Symptom Diary Template: Describe Symptoms to a Doctor
Use a copyable symptom diary and visit summary to record timing, duration, patterns, daily-life impact, medicine changes, and questions for your doctor.
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Specialist Appointment Checklist: Records, Timeline & Questions
A copyable specialist appointment checklist for the referral question, symptom timeline, medicines, records, images, and decisions you need help making.
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Medical Records Checklist for a Second Opinion
Use a copyable records checklist and conversation script to ask for a second opinion and gather notes, reports, images, pathology materials and medicines.
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How to compare a similar case with your own
Use a clinical case appraisal checklist to check completeness, diagnosis support, outcome claims, key differences, and whether a similar case applies.
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What to Do When You Have No Diagnosis Yet (+ Worksheet)
A copyable worksheet for organizing persistent unexplained symptoms, prior tests, open questions, follow-up ownership, and safety-net instructions.
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Questions to Ask Before a Medical Test or After a Diagnosis
Use a copyable medical test and diagnosis checklist to ask what a test will change, how to prepare, its limits and harms, and who will explain results.
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How to Share a Medical Story Online Safely
A privacy-first checklist for sharing a symptom story online: remove identifiers, keep the timeline useful, and turn similarities into clinician questions.
Read guideQuestions about the guide library
What do the SameCase guides cover?
They cover clinical case writing, removing identifying details, case matching, evidence reading, symptom timelines and appointment preparation. The audience label tells you whether a guide is written for doctors or for patients and caregivers.
Are SameCase guides medical advice?
No. They are educational templates and checklists, not diagnosis or treatment instructions. A qualified clinician must assess an individual situation, and severe or rapidly worsening symptoms need local medical care.
How should I use a guide safely?
Use the checklist to organize observations, questions and source review, then adapt it to the rules that apply to your care and information. Do not add identifying patient details or treat a similar case as proof of a diagnosis.
For patients & caregivers
Learn from doctors and other cases
Learn from doctors and other people's cases to find a way forward with your health problem. New cases are public immediately. Don't add names or identifying details.
For doctors
Help solve your patients’ cases
Learn from other doctors and other people's cases to help your patients. Join for free and complete the doctor checks to contribute as a verified doctor.