The Australian Family Physician (AFP) is the journal of the RCGP's Australian cousin, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners — consider it Neighbours to the BJGP's Eastenders. The AFP has started an interesting series of articles looking at the evidence behind some medical aphorisms. They have examined whether a careful history leads to the diagnosis 80% of the time (perhaps, but half the diagnosis was in the referral letter)1 and whether a doctor who treats him or herself has a fool for a patient (Yes).2 Wouldn't it be interesting to know if there is anything behind all those other sentences we vaguely remember from medical school; if only to justify passing them on proudly to medical students ourselves. After all, they are often the only things we do remember from medical school.
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