On 03/13/98 10:46:13, "Jon Wilcox" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Aphthous ulcers are an interesting "phenomenon"
>Who remembers the time in our first years of practice when patients or
>parents would say they or their child had been "run down" lately and had
>several bouts of these ulcers ? I suspect I use to politely ridicule such
>observations with superior and recently ordained MBChB Robbins-styled ("The
>Pathologic Basis of Disease") arrogance. We seemed content in the mystical
>belief that such things were proven to be "random events" because no
>ivory-towered Professors of Oral Medicine had yet designed and conducted the
>gold-standard "diagnostic proof" study and passed them on to their collegial
>pathologists.
Do you also find that that applies to other 'phenomena'?
For example, teething. I used to rubbish claims of teething causing
diarrhoea, temperature, cough, sickness, etc. Until one day a kind
lady sprogged for me my own and now I know better!
[snipped the rest of this erudite post as most of it is way above my pay
packet!) :-)
Ahmad
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