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To: T'wit
We know that it is far more commonly caused in young women by auto accidents and intimate partner violence than by all other causes combined.

You can't use general statistics to diagnose individual cases. That you are trying to do that indicates you do not understand how medicine works for individual patients.

1,328 posted on 07/09/2007 7:21:06 PM PDT by retMD
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To: retMD
>> You can't use general statistics to diagnose individual cases.

Who said you should? But you can and should use them to focus your search and not waste time on million-to-one shots. The government uses statistics all the time to tell ERs and physicians to look for abuse.

1,332 posted on 07/09/2007 7:52:10 PM PDT by T'wit (Visitors: you come here expecting a turkey shoot, and then you find out that you are the turkey.)
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