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The one-sentence case
Take the raw story, strip what does not discriminate, keep what does, and abstract the rest into medical shorthand. 'Tea-colored urine, puffy eyes, BP 168/98, two weeks after pharyngitis' becomes 'a young adult with an acute nephritic syndrome following streptococcal infection.' The abstraction is the diagnostic act.
The Reasoning Lab drills this: you write the sentence, then compare it against a reviewer version, with the discriminating features and the discarded distractors made explicit.
Pearls
- If your sentence names no tempo, it is not finished.
- Distractors deserve conscious discarding, not silent omission.
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