What's in a name?: “Mechanical” diagnosis in clinical medicine: Postgraduate Medicine: Vol 75, No 1

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Many clinical disorders have been labeled with the names of tools or machines. Placing tongue in cheek, Dr Hayden takes us on a shop tour of these diagnoses—mainly of the cardiovascular system, the nervous system, and the musculoskeletal system—so that we might become better “mechanical” diagnosticians.

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