La Maladie Du Petit Papier

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Traditional medical wisdom holds that patients who relate their complaints to their physicians from prepared lists are, ipso facto, emotionally ill. List writing, therefore, is called la maladie du petit papier, the illness of the little piece of paper, occasionally written maladie du morceau du papier. Osler's aphorism 309 states, "A patient with a written list of symptoms — neurasthenia."1 DeGowin and DcGowin in their venerable textbook on diagnosis say that note writing is "almost a sure sign of psychoneurosis. The patient with organic disease does not require references to written notes to give the essence of his . . .

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