What do black and white striped equines and tricky medical cases with surprising diagnoses have in common? They are both referred to as zebras.
In medicine, students are taught a rule of thumb coined by Dr. Theodore Woodward in the 1940’s: “When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don’t expect to see a zebra”. In other words, if a patient is exhibiting symptoms of a common cold, don’t expect they have whooping cough, for example. However, there are rare occasions when a case is difficult to diagnose and lacking common or familiar symptoms to assess. For these cases there is FindZebra.
