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Mike was a 67-year-old man who presented with abrupt visual loss in his right eye. He said that he felt like a curtain was being drawn down over this eye. The visual loss was severe, but transient, lasting about a minute.
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Howard, J. (2019). Curse of Knowledge. In: Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93224-8_5
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