Why we should care about rare disorders


THERE’S a proverb in the medical world – when one hears hoofbeats, one should look for horses, not zebras.

Simply put, this, coined by a professor of medicine in the 1940s, reminds doctors that they should look for common causes of illnesses in their patients before diving into the world of rare disorders.

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