Then again, a particular diagnosis often captures people's attention, creates fundraising pull.
Now, with widespread screening, this particular diagnosis accounts for about 20 percent of all breast cancers.
"Sometimes I'm the doctor of last resort, and other times I get animals earlier because people weren't happy with a particular diagnosis," she said.
The approach is so complex and opaque that it may not be clear to a doctor why an algorithm comes up with a particular diagnosis.
In particular, diagnosis seems to be the crucial step in strategic decision making, for it is in that routine that the whole course of decision making is set.
She offered a particular diagnosis of what was wrong with the modern city, and a blueprint for urban recovery.
Some of this has become necessary because people receiving care are no longer willing to accept that certain models of institutionalised provision are right for them just because they have a particular diagnosis.
And, because of the presumption that psychotic symptoms are the preserve of mentally ill people, estimates of the numbers affected have been based on the numbers who have received a particular diagnosis.
Here's how it works: The provider is accountable for the full cost of treating a patient with a particular diagnosis but then can decide which particular type of treatment to provide or, most significantly, not to provide.
The fact that there is no specific identification of osteoclast-like giant cells a cardinal cell type encountered in plexiform fibrohistiocytic tumor does not rule out this particular diagnosis.
The tests a dermatopathologist uses are his or her tools, but ultimately the decision to make a particular diagnosis for a patient is made based on the dermatopathologist's expertise and training in the interpretation of skin biopsies.
