https://paulnystrom.com/tags/growth-mindset/Recent content in Growth Mindset on Paul NystromHugoen-usSun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://paulnystrom.com/posts/hows-that-working-for-you/Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://paulnystrom.com/posts/hows-that-working-for-you/<p>People are very unwilling to let go of their opinions. I see this most commonly when it comes to abdominal pain. I have many discussions with patients about abdominal pain. I do large workups for abdominal pain regularly. Many of the patients I see have already had extensive workups by gastroenterology— they’ve had blood tests, cameras shoved down their throats and up their butts—but no one has any answers. I have patients with ulcerative colitis whose GI specialists tell them that diet has nothing to do with their disease. It is baffling to me that this became the standard teaching for most of the GI doctors I’ve interacted with. How is it possible that things going wrong in your gut are not related to what you put in your gut? It seems like the most intuitive thing imaginable, yet we ignore it.</p>https://paulnystrom.com/posts/mindset/Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://paulnystrom.com/posts/mindset/<p>I spend more and more time with patients talking about their medical problems that are not emergencies. The vast majority of the time, any actual emergency condition is ruled out very quickly. Occasionally, a critical diagnosis is found after quite a long time in the ER, but that&rsquo;s the exception rather than the rule. So once the actual emergencies are no longer part of the discussion, we can focus on other things.</p>