First published: November 24, 2025 Last updated: November 23, 2025 In What is a diagnosis? Part 1, I explained that diagnoses can generally be divided into biomedical diagnoses supported by observable features that can be independently verified, and syndromic diagnoses based on specific collections of symptoms without independent observable features. Neither category has a complete, […]
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First published: November 14, 2025 Last updated: November 14, 2025 How can we tell when something is wrong with us? In a popular post (6,800 views over four years), Disease, illness, sickness, and disability, I discuss different ideas related to being unwell. I did not explain how someone knows they are unwell. The answer might
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First published: November 6, 2025 Last updated: November 6, 2025 In January 1781, The London Medical Journal published a 19-page review of a book written by Dr Tiffot, a member of the Société Royale de Londres, entitled Traité des Nerfs et de leurs Maladies. (Treatise on the nerves and their maladies). Since then, malady has
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