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Do not forget the patient

Posted on September 21, 2008

The Tyranny of Diagnosis The concept of disease, Professor Rosenberg writes, has historically focused on the individual a single person s experience, story and sense of meaning.Over the last century and a half, however, medicine has increasingly decoupled disease from the individual. This decoupling has given rise to the concept of precise, objective and quantifiable diagnoses, diagnoses so separate from patients that they seem in many ways to take on a life of their own.Diagnoses cluster together by specific physiologic mechanisms, signs and symptoms, pathologic findings. They have ins...

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