Diagnostic errors and how to avoid them
Here’s a link to an article by Mark Graber, MD.
Click here for an online video conference with several diagnosis ‘experts’ moderated by Mark Graber examining diagnostic error and among other things the use of online differential diagnosis generators.
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Just listened to the first 3 podcast and found them really interesting. I will be more observant of my thinking from now on.
These podcasts are useful and informative to all health professionals
Well worth a listen
Thanks Matthew! Good luck with your metacognition!
Great listening here – thanks! I am a Physiotherapist (Clinician and Academic) and have recently been directed to your blog by a GP that I treat. Although your focus is on Internal Medicine I am very much enjoying the content and it is very relevant to the clinical decision making that is used by Physiotherapists. I recently came across the term “Clinical Gestalt”. “Clinical gestalt is the theory that healthcare practitioners actively organize clinical perceptions into coherent construct wholes” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704346/ This article goes on to comment that gestalt-based decision-making is riddled with five tangible errors. Although you discuss pattern recognition… Read more »