Search results for "Mindful Medicine"
Mindful medicine: Perils of diagnosing the physician-patient
A physician diagnoses himself, leaving a colleague to undo some of the mistaken thinking and come up with a simple diagnosis.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/01/mindful.htm
1 Jan 2009
The next issue of ACP Internist is online
The January 2010 issue of ACP Internist is online and coming soon to your mailbox.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/01/12/9.htm
12 Jan 2010
Mindful Medicine: Critical thinking leads to right diagnosis
Jerome Groopman, FACP, author of the bestselling “How Doctors Think,” and his wife, endocrinologist Pamela Hartzband, ACP Member, discuss the art of medical diagnosis and decision making through a series of case studies suggested by readers.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/01/groopman.htm
1 Jan 2008
Mindful Medicine: Don't let emotion impede right diagnosis
A case study shows how affective errors can lead to a missed diagnosis, by Jerome Groopman, FACP and Pamela Hartzband, FACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/09/mindful.htm
1 Sep 2008
Letters
Readers respond to Mindful Medicine, Ethics columns.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/02/letters.htm
1 Feb 2008
Mindful Medicine: Don't confuse correlation with causation
The case of a young woman mistakenly diagnosed with asthma llustrates the danger of confusing correlation and causation.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/07/mindful.htm
1 Jul 2008
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about medical marijuana, mindful medicine, pharmaceutical reps, and more.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/01/letters.htm
1 Jan 2011
When patients don't tell all: The diagnostic challenge
Patients don't always disclose aspects of their history that may be shameful or stigmatizing, posing a challenge of attribution errors for physicians.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/10/mindful.htm
1 Oct 2010
Anchoring errors ensue when diagnoses get lost in translation
In two cases, a patient's use of key words led to anchoring errors in diagnosing an abdominal aortic aneurism and a classic case of intermittent claudication.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/11/mindful.htm
1 Nov 2008
Seeing the whole diagnostic picture
For a year, one patient saw specialist after specialist and received a different diagnosis each time. Like the story of the blind men and the elephant, specialists often see the patient through only one component of training, as anchoring and availability sneak into their thinking.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/04/mindful.htm
1 Apr 2010