TrixieStix
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
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:
https://www.skepdoc.info/critical-thinking-in-medicine/
"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/
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