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'Normality' versus 'pathology': readers' views; Birch I (2006) 'normality' versus 'pathology': an alternative conceptual framework. The Diabetic Foot 9(2): 102-7.(Letter to the editor)

Publication: The Diabetic Foot
Publication Date: 22-SEP-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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I wondered why I was asked to provide a comment on this piece of work which conceptually looks at 'normality' versus 'pathology' (Figures I and 2). The only conclusion that I could come to was that I am the most normal person that could have been found!

One could begin by asking if there...

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...is normality within diabetes and the diabetic foot or whether all patients are their own 'norm'. What is important to clinicians is not so much to define the normal but to recognise that which is likely to develop pathology and stratify the degree of risk. So something that could be defined as the...

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