How doctors think : clinical judgment and the practice of medicine / Kathryn Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montgomery, Kathryn, 1939- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Decision making.

Medical care.

Physicians--Psychology.

Physicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'How Doctors Think' defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Rationality in an Uncertain Practice

I. Medicine as a Practice

1 Medicine and the Limits of Knowledge

2 The Misdescription of Medicine

3 Clinical Judgment and the Interpretation of the Case

II. Clinical Judgment and the Idea of Cause

4 "What Brings You Here Today?": The Idea of Cause in Medical Practice

5 The Simplification of Clinical Cause

6 Clinical Judgment and the Problem of Particularizing

III. The Formation of Clinical Judgment

7 Aphorisms, Maxims, and Old Saws: Some Rules of Clinical Reasoning

8 "Don't Think Zebras": A Theory of Clinical Knowing

9 Knowing One's Place: The Evaluation of Clinical Judgment

IV. Clinical Judgment and the Nature of Medicine

10 The Self in Medicine: The Use and Misuse of the Science Claim

11 A Medicine of Neighbors

12 Uncertainty and the Ethics of Practice

Notes

Index

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I

J

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Z.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770713-0

1-280-53312-9

9786610533121

0-19-974822-5

1-4294-0357-8

OCLC:

71794361