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TIL of "Hickam's dictum," a counterargument to Occam's razor in the medical profession. While Occam's razor suggests to a doctor that she should assume the simplest solution - a single cause for multiple symptoms, Hickam's dictum states: "A patient can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases."

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