@article{aberegg_hickams_2024,
	title = {Hickam’s {Dictum}: {An} {Analysis} of {Multiple} {Diagnoses}},
	issn = {1525-1497},
	shorttitle = {Hickam’s {Dictum}},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-09120-y},
	doi = {10.1007/s11606-024-09120-y},
	abstract = {Hickam’s dictum (“a patient can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases”) has been touted as a counterargument to Ockham’s razor, which enjoins clinicians to seek a single, simple, or unifying diagnosis. Yet the phenomenon of multiple diagnoses has not been formally analyzed.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2024-12-13},
	journal = {Journal of General Internal Medicine},
	author = {Aberegg, Scott K. and Poole, Brian R. and Locke, Brian W.},
	month = oct,
	year = {2024},
	keywords = {Ockham’s razor, Reichenbach’s common cause principle, causation, chief complaint, coincidence, incidence, incidentaloma, prevalence, probability, unifying diagnosis},
}

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