Letter: Comment on Unger J. Modern Medicine Nearly Killed Me. [Editorial] Clinical Diabetes 2016;34:22–24
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Modern Medicine Nearly Killed Me
I nearly died. Making a self-diagnosis of acute appendicitis is unpretentious, especially when the patient is a family physician with more than 30 years of clinical experience. The symptoms: right lower quadrant pain, increasing in intensity over a 3-day period and associated with anorexia and chills. I arranged to undergo the appropriate tests, which corroborated my diagnosis. After calling th...
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[This corrects the article on p. 97 in vol. 34, PMID: 27092020.].
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