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A patient came into urgent care with chest pain that had been building for five weeks, already seen once elsewhere and told it was costochondritis. He arrived with a chest X-ray and labs already done, but no one had gone over the results with him. Laura reviewed them herself: the radiology report described old, calcified tissue in his lungs as "chronic," with no prior imaging to actually confirm that. Rather than take that read at face value, she ordered a follow-up work-up, including a TB test. Days later, it came back positive for latent tuberculosis, and he started treatment. Not every finding gets caught on the first pass, and that's ok, what matters is not letting go of a case until the picture is actually clear.