title: Super sleuths.
abstract: It would be nice to have Sherlock Holmes working in health care today. His keen intellect and sense of intuition would be comforting when dealing with the unknown. In The Adventure of the Dying Detective, Holmes diagnoses Tapanuli fever, a rare and obscure infectious disease, and outwits the perpetrator in an era devoid of forensic laboratories ( Conan Doyle 1967 ).