Ted Blades had a great interview late last week on how we name diseases. Among other things, his guest explained how we used to called things after what the patient experienced (consumption) and later retitled them to what the physicians saw (tuberculosis). A really interesting piece and I'm trying to link up to it; in the meantime here's Scott Feschuk 's take on the same issue.
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