Chest Pain and Inflammation: A Story Where Hickam's Dictum Prevailed

While Occam's razor refers to a single condition explaining a patient's clinical presentation, Hickam's dictum serves as the counterbalance to this phrase such that symptoms can be secondary to a variety of diagnoses. Here, we present a case of a patient whose presentation was due to the latter.

Source: The American Journal of Medicine - May 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kris Kumar, Joshua C. Vogt, Ahmad Masri, Harsh Golwala, Firas E. Zahr, Punag H. Divanji, Hind Rahmouni, Babak Nazer Source Type: research