{"id":998,"date":"2007-05-24T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T11:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/how-doctors-think\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T11:57:01","slug":"how-doctors-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/05\/how-doctors-think\/","title":{"rendered":"How doctors think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended yesterday a video talk by Jerome Groopman as he had become too ill to travel from Boston to San Francisco. His speech was one of the highlights of this year&#8217;s ATS conference &#8211; basically a summary of his new book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Doctors-Think-Jerome-Groopman\/dp\/0618610030\">How doctors think<\/a>&#8220;. It tells you about MDs and how they make up their diagnosis. Mostly everything goes right but sometimes everything goes wrong. According to empirical research a working diagnosis is already being made within 18 seconds<!--more--> &#8211; pretty fast and sometimes too fast before all relevant questions have been asked. Groopman thinks (1) that there is a general tendency to stay in safe harbor (2) that we stick too often to well-known templates and (3) that the emotional temperature often determines further decisions. Some questions to ask are &#8220;What else could it be?&#8221; or &#8220;Does anything contradict my current view&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended yesterday a video talk by Jerome Groopman as he had become too ill to travel from Boston to San Francisco. His speech was one of the highlights of this year&#8217;s ATS conference &#8211; basically a summary of his new book &#8220;How doctors think&#8220;. It tells you about MDs and how they make up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/05\/how-doctors-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How doctors think<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[118,1083,1086,1084,1085],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-diagnosis","tag-emotional-temperature","tag-jerome_groopman","tag-known-templates","tag-safe_harbour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}