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The Best Doctors Are Not The Marrying Kind
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
Errors in medical diagnosis are often the cause of totally unnecessary medical injuries and deaths. The malpractice frequently lies in what one medical blogger refers to as marrying the diagnosis.
Faulty information synthesis, which includes a wide range of factors, was the most common cause of cognitive-based errors. The single most common phenomenon was premature closure: the tendency to stop considering other possibilities after reaching a diagnosis.
From DB's Medical Rants
I have observed that the hasty marriages which turn out poorly are almost reckless in their passionate embrace. How else to explain the decision to diagnose and treat the least serious condition and the perseverance in the relationship with the diagnosis when treatment is obviously failing. Marriage needs to be reserved for a relationship between human beings. Doctors should only be permitted to have courtships with diagnoses.
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