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Occam’s razor blunted a bit
IDLY reading a random back issue of Â鶹´«Ã½ in the bathroom, we came across a letter from David Marjot reminding readers of Hickam’s dictum (19 October 2013, p 30). We feel this exception to the much better known Occam’s razor deserves more notice.
holds simply that “a patient can have as many diseases as they damn well please”. Take, for example, someone showing up at a clinic with a headache, fever, runny nose and excruciating pain in a…
