Summary
MISDIAGNOSIS is something all doctors fear -- but getting it wrong is not necessarily the worst thing you can do.
As a junior doctor, I trained under Professor Harold Ellis, who is perhaps the greatest teacher of surgery in modern times. On one unforgettable occasion, we saw a patient who'd returned home to die from a posting in India with what was assumed to be widespread cancer. He was wasted, jaundiced, and examination of his swollen belly revealed an enlarged knobbly liver. It was 1970, long before ultrasound, CT or MRI scans. Yet the clinical picture was so clear that even a medical student could have made the diagnosis.See the full content of this document
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