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• Title:How doctors think : clinical judgement and the practice of medicine / Kathryn Montgomery.
  
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• Author/Creator:Montgomery, Kathryn, 1939-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W61 .M665 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W61 .M665 2006
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--Decision making.
  Medicine--Philosophy.
  Clinical medicine--Practice.
  
• Medical Subjects: Decision Making.
  Judgment.
  Clinical Medicine.
  
• Description:viii, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0195187121 (cloth)
  
• Contents:Introduction : rationality in an uncertain practice
  1. Medicine and the limits of knowledge
  2. misdescription of medicine
  3. Clinical judgment and the interpretation of the case
  4. "What brings you here today?" : the idea of cause in medical practice
  5. simplification of clinical cause
  6. Clinical judgment and the problem of particularizing
  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
  10. self in medicine : the use and misuse of the science claim
  11. medicine of neighbors
  12. Uncertainty and the ethics of practice.