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new book: 'Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine '

Discussion in 'Other health news and research' started by TrixieStix, Feb 24, 2019.

  1. TrixieStix

    TrixieStix Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    There is an new book out called 'Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine' (by Jonathan Howard). The book is 588 pages long so I doubt I'll be reading it in this lifetime. However 'Skep Doc' Harriet Hall MD posted a blog post about the book last week... (below is just a small excerpt from her blog post)

    "I couldn’t begin to list all the cognitive errors he covers, but they fall roughly into these six categories:
    • Errors of overattachment to a particular diagnosis
    • Errors due to failure to consider alternative diagnoses.
    • Errors due to inheriting someone else’s thinking.
    • Errors in prevalence perception or estimation.
    • Errors involving patient characteristics or presentation context.
    • Errors associated with physician affect, personality, or decision style."

    https://www.skepdoc.info/critical-thinking-in-medicine/
     
    Last edited: Feb 25, 2019

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