Richard C. Cabot

Thinkers1868 to 1939Physician

Works

  • Differential Diagnosis: Presented through an Analysis of 383 Cases, W. B. Saunders; a second volume followed in 1915, 1911

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Known for

A Harvard physician who taught diagnosis through cases. His Differential Diagnosis is organized around presenting complaints such as pain, fever, and cough, not around diseases, and he started the Massachusetts General Hospital case conferences that became the Case Records feature of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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