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Behind the Mental Veil: Malaria, Mental Illness, & the Perils of Diagnosis

Doctors generally view diagnoses as discrete, well-defined entities. You either have malaria, or you do not. You are pregnant, or you are not. There is no in-between. Settling upon one also rules out the others. For example, if a CT on a patient with a splitting headache shows a brain tumour, that’s the diagnosis.

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