Complaints as medical ontology
 

Mol 46: "Pathologists expect bad vessel walls to cause complaints. But for one reason or another this expectation isn't always fulfilled. [A] pathologist [...] rightly takes this to be a phenomenon of interest to the observer"
 
"[A] patient who never complained turns out to be severely atherosclerotic at the postmortem. In such a case, the objects enacted in the clinic and in the pathology department don't map. They clash. One atherosclerosis is severe while the other isn't."
 
47: "They have a consequence. Inevitably. A practical consequence. If two objects that go under the same name clash, in practice one of them will be privileged over the other."

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology and Medical Practice (2003)

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