Abstract

MUCI-MENDOZA, Rafael. El síndrome del cerebro descalificado -redivivo. Gac Méd Caracas. [online]. 2010, vol.118, n.1, pp.24-36. ISSN 0367-4762.

The ¨dysqualified¨ brain syndrome. The author describes a hitherto undescribed syndrome which affects the modern physician and his/her relationship with patients and their diseases. He postulates that the morbid entity takes its origin from the doctor’s submission to the ¨Machine Deity¨ to whom he concedes, among other attributes, those of omnipotence and omniscience. As a result of this fantasy, physicians frequently ¨disqualify¨ his/her brain,and abdicate their clinical judgment in its favor with the ensuing disservice to their patients. As an illustration of such condition, the difficulties of several patients are presented, whose diagnostics were abusive, erroneous or delayed due to deficient clinical histories.

Keywords : Clinical history; Medical technology; Abdominal eventration; Congenital palpebral ptosis; Takayasu’s arteritis; Primary aberrant oculomotor regeneration.