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A doctor's educated bet on your future, dressed up as certainty.
means A forecast of how a disease or condition is likely to progress, based on medical evidence.
from From Greek 'prognosis,' meaning 'foreknowledge,' built from 'pro-' (before) and 'gignoskein' (to know) — the same root that gives us 'diagnosis.' The Greeks used it literally for foreseeing the course of a disease, and physicians like Hippocrates treated prognosis as a serious diagnostic skill: reading symptoms to predict what came next. English borrowed the word intact in the 16th-17th century, medical jargon that walked straight in from Greek without even changing its coat.
- vs diagnosis
- diagnosis names it, prognosis predicts it
- etymology
- greek for knowing beforehand
- not a promise
- statistics describe populations, not your body
- can change
- improves or worsens as new data arrives