They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized in the same historical period have been given names based on characteristics that have no relation to one another, and thus no common criteria.
Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.
I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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