Comparing Occams Razor And Hickam's Di

Occam’s razor and Hickam’s dictum, when used in medicine, seek to diagnose patients and understand their symptoms’ origin. Their difference lies in their effectiveness. Occam’s razor uses the idea that the simplest answer is the most likely. Under Occam’s razor, patients exhibiting multiple symptoms will be diagnosed with one rare disease instead of multiple common ones, as it is simpler to do so. Hickam’s dictum, however, allows patients to be diagnosed with the statistically more probable case of multiple diseases, despite its higher complexity.
Occam’s razor, while allowing doctors to advance their knowledge of strange and rare diseases, only inhibits the speed at which a patient will be treated. If a patient has multiple common illnesses,