Hickam's dictum

GPTKB entity

Statements (13)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf medical principle
gptkbp:appliesTo clinical reasoning
gptkbp:category medical heuristics
gptkbp:contrastsWith gptkb:Occam's_razor
gptkbp:emphasizes multiple simultaneous diagnoses
gptkbp:field gptkb:medicine
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Hickam's dictum
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:John_Hickam
gptkbp:originatedIn mid-20th century
gptkbp:state Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please.
gptkbp:usedIn differential diagnosis
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:John_Hickam
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6