Anew patient with a history of hay fever and past cigarette use presents with wheezing, a productive cough, and dyspnea. Is the 'correct diagnosis asthma or COPD?This question plagues clinicians daily because dogma dictates that a patient has either asthma or COPD—but not both. However, separating asthma from COPD in clinical practice is difficult due to the overlapping features common to both diseases. The pitfall is to presume that both conditions can not possisbly exist in the same patient.
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