Diagnosis & Prognosis
25 November 2011
Physicians probe the past and present (diagnosis), prescribe medicine, and predict the future (prognosis). But sometimes physicians are wrong, because they’re so focussed on esoteric scientific knowledge, that they ignore plain common sense by overlooking obvious questions, such as the patient’s contact with toxins and addictions, both of which are common causes of sickness. A wise physician knows that knowledge plus common sense is wisdom, but knowledge minus common sense is nonsense.
Competing interests: None declared
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