Kafka on diagnosis

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  • 02/06/2020

     

    Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn’t mean he knows what it is — Franz Kafka.

    I hadn’t come across this quote by Franz Kafka before. It is of course true, but the converse is even more worrying. I like Sam Shuster’s aphorism better: the worst thing you can do is make a diagnosis (because it stops you thinking about what really is going on).