Minimizing Medical Mistakes: The Art of Medical Decision Making
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Abstract
This book contains 14 chapters and an appendix. The chapters are divided into three groups, and the mnemonics SHADE, PESTER, and TRUST are used. The chapters that describe diagnosis address symptoms, hunches, alternatives, disease identification, and explanation. The material that deals with therapy reviews prediction, effectiveness, safety, therapeutic decisions, execution of therapy, and reflection. The last group of chapters focuses on physician-patient relationships and covers therapeutic relationships, uncertainty, sharing, and truth. The appendix has a checklist of the errors of implementations.