Friday, 22 April 2016

OCCAM VS HICKAM

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.

No comments: