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3. Fictionalized cases are super common in medical education -
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 08:14 PM
17 hrs ago

The fictionalized case present a variety of symptoms that typically don’t all occur in any one patient.

I think what I am seeing here is lack of science/medical knowledge on the part of the New Yorker journalist, fact checkers, and editors.

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