O P Kapoor Hon. Visiting Physician, Jaslok Hospital and Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, Ex.
Iatrogenic illnesses are one of the commonest examples.
The reason is that a GP cannot remember thousands of names of drugs. Acute attack of Gout is more often missed. Pain often starts in the epigastrium and later is around the peri-umbilical area. Vomiting is often absent. Leucocytosis is often absent.