Editorial

Polyarteritis Nodosa: The Great Mimicker, Mimicked

Authors: Philip Seo, MD, MHS

Abstract

“The physician should challenge, rather than accept, every diagnosis that the patient claims was made in the past by other physicians …. To blindly accept such proffered diagnoses as factual may be to start off with some very wrong assumptions, which, if challenged, occasionally reveal some excellent clues as to what really transpired. Take nothing for granted.” - –Philip Tumulty The Effective Clinician1

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References

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