CHAP 16 Flashcards
1
Q
8 ways in which an EMT can learn to think like a highly experienced physician
A
- Learn to love ambiguity
- Understand the limitations of technology and people.
- Realize that no one strategy works for everything
- Form a strong foundation of knowledge
- Organize the data in your head
- Change the way you think
- Learn from others
- Reflect on what you have learned.
2
Q
What are the differences in the way an emergency physician reaches a diagnosis compared to the way an EMT reaches a diagnoses?
A
table 16-1 PG. 387
3
Q
What are “search satisfying” and “confirmation bias”?
A
Search satisfying: once you end what you’re looking for, you stop looking for other causes or probabilities.
Conformation bias: a clinician looks for evidence to support a particular diagnosis. In doing so he may overlook evidence refutes or reduces the probability of that diagnosis
