文档介绍：How Doctors Think:
Clinical Judgment and
the Practice of Medicine
Kathryn Montgomery
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
HOW DOCTORS THINK
HOW DOCTORS THINK
CLINICAL JUDGMENT AND THE PRACTICE
OF MEDICINE
:
Kathryn Montgomery
2006
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CONTENTS
:
Introduction: Rationality in an Uncertain Practice 3
I. Medicine as a Practice
1 Medicine and the Limits of Knowledge 13
2 The Misdescription of Medicine 29
3 Clinical Judgment and the Interpretation of the Case 42
II. Clinical Judgment and the Idea of Cause
4 “What Brings You Here Today?”: The Idea of Cause in Medical
Practice 57
5 The Simplification of Clinical Cause 70
6 Clinical Judgment and the Problem of Particularizing 84
III. The Formation of Clinical Judgment
7 Aphorisms, Maxims, and Old Saws: Some Rules of Clinical
Reasoning 103
8 “Don’t Think Zebras”: A Theory