This is doing the rounds in my office. It came from a training journal for ER staff and is referring to diagnosing the cause of the coma or unconsciousness:
Diagnosis
If available, the history from relatives or ambulance staff will often give all the necessary clues needed to make a provisional diagnosis of the cause of unconsciousness. However, if they are a pyrexial, depressed epileptic diabetic that has been unwell recently and then fallen down stairs...........
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