Friday, 21 March 2008

Cimetidine

Quite apart from being a drug, CIMETIDINE is one of these mnemonics I learned at medical school, then forgot, but was prompted to remember. It is the sieve of differential diagnosis:

C
ongenital
Infection/inflammation
Metabolic
Endocrine
Trauma
Idiopathic
Degenerative
Iatrogenic
Neoplastic
Everything else

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