Diagnosis through prisms: Unraveling its complexity.
editorial · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 39910749.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1111/acem.15120 and PMC identifier 11921081.
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Abstract
Following a review of accepted submissions for this special issue of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)'s collected papers on diagnosis, we offer a commentary on the variety of reports. We use the metaphor of Newton's demonstration that a complex percept like the rainbow can be broken down by prisms, into a collection of different wavelengths of light. Like Feynman, we believe that the beauty of something may be revealed and augmented by reducing it to its constituent parts.
Medical subject headings
- Emergency Medicine
- Diagnosis