Other Medical Aphorisms
- Sutton's law - perform first the diagnostic test expected to be most useful
- Occam's razor - select from among competing hypotheses the one that makes the fewest new assumptions
- Leonard's Law of Physical Findings - it's obvious or it's not there
- KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid
- Hickam's dictum - "Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please"
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