First published: April 6, 2024 Last updated: November 23, 2025 In healthcare, a diagnosis is a label assigned to a health condition. The Oxford English Dictionary defines diagnosis as: “the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms,” and the Cambridge Dictionary as: “a judgment about what a […]
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The title of this post is deliberately ambiguous. It contains both the issue – how should you make a challenging clinical decision – and the answer – challenge each decision to check that it is sound and justified. Using four recent legal judgments, I will argue that the best way to make a difficult decision
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Neural plasticity is “the ability of the central nervous system (CNS) to adapt in response to changes in the environment or lesions”. It has been recognised since 1912. Publications about rehabilitation have increasingly referred to neural plasticity as central to rehabilitation’s success; for example, Zuha Warraich and Jeffrey Kleim said, “an understanding of neural plasticity
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