Snowball in a blizzard a physician's notes on uncertainty in medicine
"Diagnoses are often just educated guesses, and prognoses less certain still. There is a significant amount of uncertainty in the daily practice of medicine, resulting in confusion and potentially deadly complications. Dr. Steven Hatch argues that instead of ignoring this uncertainty, we should...
| Main Author: | Hatch, Steven, 1969- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Primum non nocere : the motivations and hazards of overdiagnosis
- Vignette : the perils of predictive value
- Snowball in a blizzard
- The pressures of managing pressure
- Lyme's false prophets : chronic fatigue, tick-borne illness, and the overselling of certainty
- The origins of knowledge and the seeds of uncertainty
- The correlation/causation problem, or why dark chocolate may not lower your risk of heart failure
- "Health watch" : hype, hysteria, and the media's overconfident march of progress
- Conclusion : the conversation
- Appendix. A very nonmathematical description of statistical significance.