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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 easier to remember and make more sense when clustered into related and overlapping topics, or seen in terms of multi-organ disease.
A small handbook that gives a concise, visual reference would be helpful.
Ideally, it would be nice to have a computational biologist involved in order to define accurate (and often startling) relationships between various conditions- (to take a banal example, smoking is an independent risk factor for developing diabetes).
Yours,
Deutschy, organically developing our rail network!
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