
Ep 88 Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash
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The Importance of Signs and Symptoms in Medicine
As the ability to detect disease, signs became more refined. Diagnosis increasingly relied on signs rather than symptoms. A physician could listen less or not at all to their patient and still end u successfully treating them. It also meant that if there were no signs, or the signs didn't tell them anything, they could and often did, disregard the symptoms as hyster cal. Ye. And this quality of hysteria as a ease of exclusion it was useful to physicians, especially as the field of medicine itself evolved.
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