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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 […]