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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
How doctors make decisions about patients
There's a good New Yorker article entitled What's the Trouble: How Doctors Think. In 1979, he decided to become a doctor, and, as a medical student, he was surprised at how little attention was paid to what he calls the “cognitive dimension” of clinical decision-making—the process by which doctors interpret their patients’ symptoms and weigh test results in order to arrive at a diagnosis and a plan of treatment.
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