Back again with another month’s worth of interesting, inane, or sometimes important emergency medicine literature. As always, podcast version on BroomeDocs or YouTube.
cognitive errors
9 posts
I recently posted a textbook chapter that I wrote about availability bias. (I strongly recommend the textbook, if anyone is interested in the topic of bias and decision making in medicine.) However, most discussion of these cognitive biases in medicine has remained purely theoretical. The biases make sense, and sound […]
The human mind is imperfect. We all make mistakes. We are all susceptible to bias. Although we love to talk about and perform procedures, emergency medicine is really all about making difficult decisions, and so we all need a thorough understanding of how our minds work, how mistakes are made, and […]
The human mind is imperfect. We all make mistakes. We are all susceptible to bias. Although we love to talk about and perform procedures, emergency medicine is really all about making difficult decisions, and so we all need a thorough understanding of how our minds work, how mistakes are made, and […]
The final installment of the cognitive theory series explores a few of the problems of attempting to apply current cognitive theory to medical practice