The Clinical Etymologist

The Kissing Disease


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Infectious mononucleosis reminds us that medicine often lives in the space between certainty and curiosity. 

The tests help, but the story — the pattern of fatigue, fever, and swollen nodes — still matters most. 

Every patient teaches us that diagnosis is not a checkbox, but a dialogue between cells, science, and clinical sense. 

And sometimes, the most contagious thing in the room is curiosity itself.

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The Clinical EtymologistBy Dr. Simon Kim