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01-11-2015 | Clinical Practice: Exercises in Clinical Reasoning
Sutton’s Law: Keep Going Where The Money Is
Authors:
Satoshi Watanuki, MD, Hitoshi Honda, MD, Nobuyoshi Minemura, MD, Reza Sedighi Manesh, MD, Didier Raoult, MD, PhD, Yasuharu Tokuda, MD, MPH
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 11/2015
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Excerpt
A 70-year-old Japanese man presented to a local clinic with a 3-year history of weight loss and a 2-month history of anorexia. His baseline weight was 60 kg, which had decreased to approximately 50 kg at the time of presentation. He denied fever, chills, night sweats, arthralgia, rash, diarrhea, and vomiting. His past medical history included hypertension. He was not taking any medications. The patient was a retired real estate manager. He did not drink alcohol and had quit smoking tobacco 40 years prior. He never used illegal drugs and was not sexually active. …