The author at work in the lab.
In medical school, students are taught, “When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras.”
This is meant to remind physicians to think of common ailments first rather than rare diseases when diagnosing patients. So when I started experiencing pain in the upper right quadrant of my abdomen this past spring, I told myself to be rational. The feeling reminded me of the aches and soreness I had felt after a car accident when I was younger. After some Googling... Читать дальше...