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Volume 5 Issue 5February 2000

SPOTTING THE CURABLE

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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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