One of the things they taught residents in medical school was that when you heard hoofbeats, don’t think zebras. In other words, don’t immediately assume a bump was malignant, flu-like symptoms were Ebola, a cough was the Black Death.
For the most part, it was good advice. Right up until the symptoms you were presented with turned out to be cancer or the plague.
J. R. Ward (The Savior)
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