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On the 23rd February 2009, Dao Duy Anh, born on 24 September 1992, consulted the Thaí Bình General Hospital because of bad stomach pains. A physician recorded the anamnesis, examined him, diagnosed an acutely inflamed stomach and wrote prescriptions for amoxiclin, rekalate, smecta and omeprazole. Anh was cured within a few days and no follow-up by medical services was required.
This lesson should give the reader a clear idea of what epidemiology really is.
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Krickeberg, K., Van Trong, P., Thi My Hanh, P. (2019). The Idea of Epidemiology. In: Epidemiology. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16368-6_1
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