Robert Edwin Rakel
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LOCATION: Houston, TX, United States
Professor and Chairman, Department of Family Medicine; Associate Dean for Academic and Clinical Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Editor of Conn's Current Therapy and many others.
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Diagnosis, the process of determining the nature of a disease or disorder and distinguishing it from other possible conditions. The term comes from the Greek gnosis, meaning knowledge. The diagnostic process is the method by which health professionals select one disease over another, identifying…
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