CEREBROSPINALECTOMY
3:40 a.m. Consult reason, in full: "Neuro eval." Me: "Eval for what?" Pager: "Neuro." A consult question is the single most useful thing on the page, and it is the field most often left empty. Without it the consultant is running the whole differential from scratch at 3 a.m. Two words would have saved forty minutes. Any two. Send this to whoever writes 'neuro eval'.
EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
A specific clinical question improves the relevance and efficiency of specialty consultation; non-specific consult requests require the consultant to reconstruct the clinical question independently.
Established neuroanatomy / standard clinical teaching; PubMed and Consensus were not reachable in this unattended run, so no PMID is asserted.
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