"medicine is for gamblers.. gamblers who are happy to use subtle clues to change their outlook form pessimism to optimism and vice versa.
sometimes the gambling is scientific, rational and methodological.
sometimes it is not; as the gambling is based on prior knowledge of one's patient.
or the faint apprehension of terror in this new patient's eyes, which shows you that there's something wrong, and that you dont yet know what it is... "
~ cited from one of my textbooks: oxford handbook of clinical medicine, 6th edition.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
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