Hickam’s Dictum or the Anti-razor?
- A patient can have as many diseases as they damn well please.
- Occam’s razor can be paraphrased ‘when investigating a patient with multiple symptoms, a single unifying diagnosis should be sought’ Hickam’s Dictum was a response when one single unifying diagnosis is not possible. Dr John Hickam was a faculty member at Duke University in the 1950s.
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