Concept tag
#diagnosis
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Affirming the consequent on a hospital ward
I teach medical students on ward rounds in Cairo, and I've realised that I spend a lot of my time correcting a logical fallacy, and also committing it. A student says: if this patient had pneumonia, she would have fever, cough and…
Started by Omar Farouk5 replies244 views -
Does a diagnosis name a real condition, or a useful bundle of symptoms?
I work in internal medicine in Addis Ababa. Some diagnoses I make every day feel like discoveries: a particular infection, caused by a particular organism, with a test that finds it. Others feel more like agreements. "Metabolic syndrome" is a cluster of…
Started by Tsion Bekele5 replies157 views -
Is “depression” one condition or several? A clinician’s doubts
I have practised as a psychoanalyst in Buenos Aires for many years and have worked alongside psychiatrists the whole time. One question has followed me: when two patients receive the same diagnosis of major depression, do they have the same thing? Consider…
Started by Martín Roldán4 replies138 views