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Fig. 20.8
LQC of a normal individual
immediate after having exposed LICs, we shall offer only two examples of LQCs,
shown in figures 20.9 and 20.10 :
Fig. 20.9
LQC of a patient suffering Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Stephen Hawking case.
At this point we must note an important remark: both LIC and LQC curves are
fuzzy and are not carved in stone, as we can immediately realize from figures 20.3
and 20.4 where the same illness, ALS, show two dramatically different behaviours
in two different patients, although we must concede that Hawking's case is certainly
rare. In any case, it's really interesting to note that the shape of LIC and LQC curves
are affected by the perception of the person who observes the condition. Let us take
again as an example the LQC of Stephen Hawking as shown in figure 20.11: While
we can interpret the bold curve as the perception of a neurologist, it is more than
likely that the own patient's perception is different, expressed as an example by the
thin curve in the graphic.
The difference in perception between patient and physician is not the only one at
play. Society also usually perceives a given condition from a different point of view
that the one from the affected person, as we can observe in figure 12 for diabetes,
