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Author(s) -

Roger A Fisken,

J F Mayberry

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

postgraduate medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.568

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1469-0756

pISSN - 0032-5473

DOI - 10.1136/pmj.76.893.189c

Subject(s) - medicine , section (typography) , computer science , operating system

Sir, I am concerned about some of the case presentations which have appeared in your self-assessment section recently, as they seem to me to exemplify a very old-fashioned attitude to differential diagnosis and one which, frankly, we should have abandoned many years ago. I refer specifically to the papers by Balcombe1 and by Usalan and Ozarslan.2 In the first paper we are asked: “What is the cause of thrombocytopaenia?”. The answer given on the next page begins by providing a box with a long list of potential causes of …

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