Sharing experience through case reports

摘要

Even before the time of Hippocrates, case reports have provided rich resources for teaching and research in medicine,1,2 despite the disparaging attention given by the scientific community to these reports in comparison with other types of publications. Not only have clinicians been learning from their more experienced peers, but also from their own work with their individual patients for a very long time. Accurate recounting of clinical experience continues to be essential to the progress of medicine, even in the modern era of evidence?based medicine, where, in the pinnacle of this hierarchy, are found the randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analysis.3,4,5.