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The Clinical Problem-Solving exercise in this issue of the Journal, entitled "Costly Errors,"¹ contains many valuable lessons about the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune hemolytic anemia — lessons learned from a regrettable and flawed approach to a patient with this disorder. Because we have been criticized in the past for describing cases of substandard medical care in this series,^2,3,4,5,6 it seems timely to explain why we have chosen certain cases for the series and to offer some suggestions about how to teach and learn the principles of diagnosis.

For decades no attempt was made to teach diagnosis as a specific . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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