Dear All,
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Dear All,
I have been working on this one for some time.
You can think of the spectrum from pathophysiology to disease to symptomatology to be roughly as follows:
Root causes
Pathophysiology
Organ-specific disease
Signs
Symptoms
(As if layers on a cake)
We often concentrate, in clinical medicine on a small selection of these, often closer to the bottom. However, a lot of things are both […]
Dear All,
For various reasons, this blog will cease to be personal, but rather be more about what it was originally meant to be– ie an “ideas” blog.
Yours,
Deutschy.
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