<unk>  is a counterargument to the use of Occam's razor in the medical profession. While Occam's razor suggests that the simplest explanation is the most likely, implying in medicine that diagnosticians should assume a single cause for multiple symptoms, one form of<unk>  states: "A man can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases." The principle is attributed to John<unk> , MD. When he began saying this is uncertain. In 1946 he was a housestaff member in medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.<unk>  was a faculty member at Duke University in the 1950s, and was later chairman of medicine at Indiana University from 1958 to 1970. He died at age 55 in 1970.
Hickam's dictum
Bell–Magendie law
Theory of indispensable attributes
Farr's laws
McNeill's law
MECIF Protocol
Dogliotti's principle
Baumgarten–Tangl law