Before understanding a disease, you need to understand how medicine thinks. What is a diagnosis? What is the difference between a sign and a symptom? What are risk factors, and what does prognosis mean? These foundational articles provide the conceptual vocabulary that makes every other medical article easier to understand.
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Differential diagnosis is the reasoning process by which a doctor lists the possible causes of a patient's symptoms and rules them out one by one until the most likely remains.
Signs are objective and measurable by the doctor; symptoms are subjective and reported by the patient. A doctor explains the difference with clear clinical examples and why it matters for your diagnosis.
