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Q J Med 2004; 97: 313-314
QJM vol. 97 no. 5 (c) Association of Physicians 2004; all rights reserved.

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Yellow nose sign

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A mother was describing to me how her child had been vomiting over the last few days. ‘And I know just before he's going to be sick’ she told me ‘because the sides of his nose turn yellow.’ She looked at me significantly, no doubt assuming that the yellow nose sign would mean something to me as a doctor and hence lead me to the exact diagnosis.

Patients’ narratives are full of these kinds of apparently nonsensical descriptions. Mostly we do not even hear them—quite literally. If you want . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Launer


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