Today I Learned
TIL of "Hickam's dictum", the less-well-known medical counterargument to Occam's razor: "Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please."
Hickam's dictum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hickam's dictum is a counterargument to the use of Occam's razor in the medical profession. The principle is commonly stated: "Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please". The principle is attributed to John Hickam, MD. Hickam was a faculty member at Duke University in the 1950s, and was later chairman of medicine at Indiana University.
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