Ockham's Razor: The Application of Parsimonious Medicine in Allergy/Immunology.

The spectacular advances of modern medicine have distracted clinicians from applying the age-old principles of thorough history and examination followed by only ordering tests relevant to the patient's presentation. The current fashion to test for vitamin D insufficiency in patients with poorly controlled allergic diseases has rarely achieved benefit but significantly increased costs.

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• 1 The most obvious diagnosis is the most likely and should be addressed first.
• 2 Ockham's razor, or parsimonious medicine, should be applied because plurality of diagnoses is less likely than a single explanation.
• 3 Component-resolved diagnostics and biological therapies for allergy/immune-mediated diseases have been highly effective when used by specialist allergy services.

Understanding this could lead to better treatments, improved diagnostics, or a deeper grasp of how the human body works — benefiting patient care globally.

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