Sutton’s Law

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Sutton’s Law

A guideline evoked to temper the enthusiasm of externs—US medical students in their 3rd and 4th years of school—and other novices in clinical medicine, who want to ‘work up’ a condition—e.g., an acute abdomen for porphyria, metastatic medulloblastoma or other esoterica—while ignoring a particular symptom’s more common causes

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