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Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine by [Jonathan Howard]

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Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine 1st ed. 2019 Edition, Kindle Edition

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This case-based book illustrates and explores common cognitive biases and their consequences in the practice of medicine. The book begins with an introduction that explains the concept of cognitive errors and their importance in clinical medicine and current controversies within healthcare. The core of the book features chapters dedicated to particular cognitive biases; cases are presented and followed by a discussion of the clinician's rationale and an overview of the particular cognitive bias. Engaging and easy to read, this text provides strategies on minimizing cognitive errors in various medical and professional settings.

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“This book is a textbook explaining our cognitive errors. Its theme is medicine but the same errors occur everywhere. We all need to understand our psychological foibles in order to think clearly about every aspect of our lives and to make the best decisions. Every doctor would benefit from reading this book, and I wish it could be required reading in medical schools. I wish everyone who considers trying CAM would read it first.” (Sciene-Based Medicine, sciencebasedmedicine.org, January, 2019) --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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This case-based book illustrates and explores common cognitive biases and their consequences in the practice of medicine. The book begins with an introduction that explains the concept of cognitive errors and their importance in clinical medicine and current controversies within healthcare. The core of the book features chapters dedicated to particular cognitive biases; cases are presented and followed by a discussion of the clinician's rationale and an overview of the particular cognitive bias. Engaging and easy to read, this text provides strategies on minimizing cognitive errors in various medical and professional settings. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07KY29F34
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 1st ed. 2019 edition (November 28, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 28, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 59009 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 1106 pages

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BOK

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2019

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This is full of topics that need to be more commonly discussed. Some of them are obscure, while others are more situations of "the emperor has no clothes," but they share the fact being aware helps to mitigate the associated damage.

Dr Howard takes a number of frightening and discouraging situations, and presents them with a great deal of dark and wry humor, as well as breaking them down into manageable bites. Every health care provider needs to be aware of these traps, and every health care consumer would do well to educate themselves as well.

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Carey Ragels

Too expensive, looks like it was self published with little to no editing assistance.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2021

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Too expensive, looks like it was self published with little to no editing assistance. Lots of typos, misspellings, etc. Does not look or read like a professionally done book. For $60, I expected more than a first draft type document.

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Sri Ahimsa

See what the real consequences are that come from logical flaws.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 29, 2019

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This takes a dry, academic subject and turns it into a life saving set of advice. I wish I had had access to this when I was in school. This is a book to read and think about each topic.

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Old Guy Rules

Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2019

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A good book filled with errors in decision-making based on many clinical experience.

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Cindy

Extremely informative for all fields!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2018

While this book is written primarily towards those in the medical field, it has application to laypersons as well. All throughout the book, Dr. Howard breaks down how the mindset of a person can result in errors in thinking. I especially liked how the entire book illustrates how people can fall for pseudoscience through a combination of misunderstanding study results and the methods used by those who prey on the hopes and fears of individuals.

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Sharpen your diagnostic skills

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 16, 2019

This book helped me to recognize some very important logical mistakes I was making in diagnostic workups, and could do the same for you. I highly recommend this book to any medical clinician or science educator. It combines the comprehensive scope of a textbook with the readability of a popular science book. I couldn't put it down.

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Linda F.

An informative and important book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 2, 2019

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This booked is aimed at the medical profession of which I am not a member. I am however particularly interested in the hows and whys of the way people think and make decisions and how it is that many prefer to believe pseudoscience rather than the real science for which there is hard evidence. Some of the medical references were above my head but it was otherwise easy to understand. It is laid out logically with each chapter dealing with a particular type of cognitive bias and starting with cases histories followed by a discussion and ending with conclusions drawn. Anyone, medic or not, who has enjoyed Ben Goldacre's Bad Science will also find this book illuminating.

Autistic Shill

Very informative and intriguing

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 31, 2019

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Great book. Very informative and intriguing. I found it was an easier to read than expected. The book describes how people fall for conspiracies, through misunderstandings and charlatans who prey on their beliefs.

cyrillus34

Les biais cognitifs

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on November 23, 2019

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Bonjour,
Livre en anglais sur les biais cognitifs en médecine et comment les contrer.
Cela peut aussi s'appliquer aux biais dans la vie courante.
Beaucoup d'exemples, lecture assez facile.
Cordialement.

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