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| Volume 5 Issue 5 | February 2000 |
SPOTTING THE CURABLE
Practice Points
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Competent diagnosis includes ruling out diseases that are improbable but treatable
Urgent treatment may take precedence over accurate diagnosis
raditional medical teaching needs to be supplemented with practical check-lists for important, urgent diagnoses
Some rare diseases are commonly diagnosed well after treatment should optimally have been started
Detection before symptoms first appear is the only way to impact some diseases
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