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Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?
Who's teaching doctors how to think?
Or, as Gen Z would say, “vibes.” A lot of ER docs like “spidey-sense”—the tingle that whispers: “order a CT scan to rule out a life-threatening diagnosis,” though the patient’s symptoms don’t exactly indicate it. When I suggested to the professorthat he spend half an hour reviewing algebra for those students who never had the material covered cogently in high school, I was told in no uncertain terms that it would be a waste of time because some people just can't hack it in engineering. In The Name of the Rose, William of Baskerville is a monk but also a proto-detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and when he’s trying to solve a series of increasingly bizarre murders, he tells his sidekick, Adso, that “we mustn’t dismiss any hypothesis, no matter how farfetched.” And so it often is in medicine.
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