Foreword |
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Author's Welcome and Introduction |
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1 Ways We See, Learn, and Practice Medicine Today: Paradigms of What We Are Doing |
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Not-So-Random Leading Thoughts |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (3) |
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1.1 Art, Science, and Craft of Medicine |
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9 | (2) |
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1.1.2 Medicine as Science |
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1.1.2.1 Scientific Theory |
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1.1.2.2 Scientific Method |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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1.2 Deterministic vs. Probabilistic Paradigm of Medicine: Uncertainty, Fuzziness, and Chaos |
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14 | (5) |
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1.2.1 Probability and Clinical Uncertainty |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (2) |
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1.2.3 Chaos Theory in Medicine |
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18 | (1) |
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1.3 Medicine as Philosophy: Philosophy in Medicine and Philosophy of Medicine |
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19 | (2) |
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1.3.1 Philosophy in Medicine |
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1.3.2 Philosophy of Medicine |
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20 | (1) |
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1.4 Practice and Theory of Medicine: Which One Will You Learn? |
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1.4.1 Practice of Medicine |
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1.5 Evidence-Based Medicine and Other Evidence-Based Health Sciences |
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1.6 Beyond the Original Concept of Evidence-Based Medicine: Evidence-Based Critical Thinking Medicine and Reflective Uses of Evidence |
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28 | (9) |
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1.6.2 Reflective Uses of Evidence |
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Conclusions: What Exactly Should We Teach and Learn Then? |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (6) |
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2 How Physicians and Other Health Professionals Really (or Should) Think |
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37 | (70) |
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37 | (2) |
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Not-So-Random Leading Thoughts |
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39 | (1) |
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2.1 General Medical Thinking and Reasoning |
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2.1.1 Basic Considerations Related to Clinical Care and Caregivers' Reasoning |
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41 | (2) |
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2.1.2 Our Thinking and Reasoning: Essential Definitions and Meanings |
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43 | (7) |
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2.1.3 Tools for Argumentation |
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2.1.3.1 "Naked" Argument (Enthymeme) or Argument at Its Simplest: A "Two-Element" Reasoning |
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2.1.3.2 "Classical" Form of Reasoning: Categorical Syllogism or "Three-Element" Reasoning |
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2.1.3.3 "Modern" Form of Toulmin's Model of Argument: A "Multiple (Six-) Element" Way of Reasoning to Reach Valid Conclusions |
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2.1.4 Reminder Regarding Some Additional and Fundamental Considerations |
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71 | (2) |
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2.2 Challenges of Causal Reasoning within the General Context of Medical Thinking and Reasoning |
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2.2.1 Causal Reasoning in a Quantitative and Qualitative Way |
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2.2.1.1 How We Look at Causes: Single or Multiple Sets, Chains, Webs, Concept Maps |
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2.2.1.2 Ways of Searching for Causes |
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2.2.1.3 Criteria of Causality |
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82 | (3) |
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2.2.1.4 Disease or Event Frequencies and Fractions in Causal Reasoning |
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85 | (9) |
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2.2.1.5 Beyond Causality: Combining Frequencies, Fractions, Risks, and Proportions |
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94 | (2) |
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2.2.1.6 Quantifying Our Uncertainties |
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96 | (1) |
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2.3 Fallacies in Medical Reasoning and Scientific Thinking in General |
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2.4 Role of Causal Reasoning in Medical Thinking |
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98 | (1) |
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2.5 Critical Thinking, Communication, and Decision Making and Their Connection to Medical Ethics |
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98 | (9) |
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99 | (3) |
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102 | (5) |
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3 Reasoning in Step-by-Step Clinical Work and Care: Risk, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis |
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107 | (56) |
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107 | (2) |
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Not-So-Random Leading Thoughts |
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109 | (1) |
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3.1 "You Are at Risk." What Does This Mean and How Can It Be Mutually Understood by Us, Our Patients, and the Community? |
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3.1.1 What Is "Risk" in Health Sciences? |
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3.1.2 Are Risk Characteristics All the Same? Risk Factors and Risk Markers |
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3.1.3 Why Are Some Risk Factors "Significant" and Others Not? |
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3.1.4 Where Does Our Knowledge of Risk Factors and Markers Come From? |
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3.1.5 Risk as a Subject of Argumentation |
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3.1.6 Illustrative Fallacies |
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3.1.7 How Do We Think about Risk? Our Ways of Reasoning about Risk |
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3.2 "We Have a Problem Here": Properties of Meaningful Diagnosis |
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3.2.1 Quality and Completeness of the Diagnostic Material |
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3.2.2 How Is a Diagnosis Made? |
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3.2.3 How Good Are Our Diagnostic Methods and Techniques? |
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3.2.4 Diagnosis as a Subject of Argumentation |
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127 | (1) |
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3.2.5 Illustrative Fallacies |
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127 | (3) |
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3.2.6 How Do We Think and Reason in the Diagnosis Domain? |
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3.3 "That's What We'll Do about It" Reasoning and Deciding How to Treat and if the Treatment Works |
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132 | (11) |
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3.3.1 Types and Levels of Medical Therapeutic and Preventive Interventions |
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132 | (3) |
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3.3.2 Which Treatment Works Best? How Is It Measured? |
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3.3.3 Which Treatment Modality Applies to a Particular Patient? |
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3.3.4 Treatment as a Subject of Argumentation |
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140 | (1) |
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3.3.5 Illustrative Fallacies |
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3.3.6 How Do We Reason in the Domain of Treatment and Preventive Intervention? |
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3.4 Reasoning about Prognosis: "You'll Be Doing Well" Making Prognosis Meaningful |
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143 | (20) |
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3.4.1 Differences between the Prognosis Domain and the Risk Domain |
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145 | (3) |
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3.4.2 What Do We Need to Know about Prognostic Events and Outcomes? |
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148 | (2) |
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3.4.3 What Do We Expect from Prognostic Studies in Order to Reason More Effectively about the Future of Our Patients? What Treatment Modality Best Applies to a Particular Patient? |
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150 | (3) |
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3.4.3.1 How Should We Apply What We Know to an Individual Patient? |
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153 | (1) |
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3.4.4 Prognosis as a Subject of Argumentation |
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153 | (1) |
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3.4.5 Illustrative Fallacies |
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154 | (2) |
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3.4.6 How Do We Think in the Domain of Prognosis? Considerations for Further Work and Understanding in the Area of Prognosis |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (4) |
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4 Clinical and Community Medicine Decision Making |
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163 | (2) |
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Not-So-Random Leading Thoughts |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (2) |
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4.1 Decision Theory, Decision Analysis, and Decision Making in General and in Medicine |
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168 | (1) |
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4.2 How Decisions Are Made in Daily Life |
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169 | (24) |
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4.2.1 Direction Searching Tools through Unstructured Ways of Decision Making |
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170 | (2) |
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4.2.2 Direction Searching Tools through Structured Ways of Decision Making |
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172 | (1) |
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4.2.2.1 Decision Analysis |
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4.2.2.2 Cost-Benefit/Effectiveness/Utility Analysis in Clinical Decision Making |
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4.2.2.3 Decisions as Conclusions of an Argumentative Process |
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179 | (3) |
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4.2.3 Direction-Giving Tools in Decision Making |
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182 | (1) |
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4.2.3.1 Tactical Tools: Clinical Algorithms |
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4.2.3.2 Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Path |
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188 | (1) |
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4.2.3.3 Strategic Tools for Making the Right Decisions: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Clinical Protocols |
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188 | (5) |
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4.3 Illustrative Fallacies in the Decision-Making Domain |
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4.3.1 Fallacies from an Individual Perspective: Individual-Related Fallacies |
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4.3.1.1 Reasoning-Based Fallacies: Fallacies Related to the Thinking Process behind Decision Making |
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4.3.1.2 Fallacies from the Motivation to Decide Domain |
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4.3.1.3 Fallacies Related to Decisions Themselves |
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196 | (1) |
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4.3.2 Collective-Related Fallacies: Groupthink |
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196 | (1) |
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199 | (6) |
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5 How Physicians Communicate with Themselves, Their Patients, and Others: Clinical Communication and Its Vehicles |
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205 | (56) |
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205 | (2) |
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Not-So-Random Leading Thoughts |
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207 | (2) |
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209 | (1) |
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5.1 How to View Communication in General and in Its Medical Context |
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210 | (3) |
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5.2 Intellectual Vehicles of Communication: Some Less and Some More Interrogative Ways of Sharing Knowledge and Experience |
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213 | (11) |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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5.2.4 Pimping: A Refined Form of Bullying |
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214 | (1) |
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5.2.6 Argumentation and Critical Thinking-Based and Evidence-Grounded Exchange of Data and Information: A "What Do You Think?" Type of Medicine I |
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5.2.7 Socratic Dissent---A Refined Form of Pimping: A "What Do You Think?" Medicine II |
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221 | (3) |
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5.3 Instrumental Vehicles, Opportunities, and Environments for Professional Communication: Oral and Written Exchanges of Experience in Clinical Practice |
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224 | (31) |
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5.3.1 Patient Interviews: Admission and Opening Patients' Charts |
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228 | (1) |
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5.3.1.1 Verbal, Oral, and Written Communication |
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5.3.1.2 Nonverbal Communication |
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5.3.2 Revisiting the Patient: Updating Opening Interview and Record through Bedside Communication and Progress Notes (SOAPs) |
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5.3.3 Narratives and Clinical Case Reports |
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5.3.3.1 Clinical Consultations as Narratives |
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236 | (2) |
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5.3.3.2 Clinical Vignettes and Clinical Case Reports |
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238 | (6) |
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5.3.5 Morbidity and Mortality Reports and Rounds |
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244 | (1) |
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5.3.7 Other Types of Rounds |
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246 | (1) |
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5.3.8 Mostly One-Way Communication Vehicles: Consults, Referrals, Discharge Notes, and Summaries |
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5.3.10 Formal (Magisterial) Lectures |
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249 | (1) |
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5.3.11 Medical Articles and Other Scientific Papers |
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250 | (5) |
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5.3.12 Other Forms of Communication |
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255 | (1) |
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5.4 Illustrative Fallacies in Communication |
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5.4.1 Slippery Slope Fallacy (Domino Theory, Argument of the Beard, Barefoot, Beard Fallacy, Domino Fallacy, Reductio Ad Absurdum, Slippery Slope Argument) |
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5.4.3 Appeal to Consequences Fallacy (Wishful Thinking) |
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258 | (1) |
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5.4.4 Self-Evidence Fallacy (Mystical Assertion, Blind Conviction) |
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258 | (1) |
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5.4.5 Appeals to Anything Other than the Best Evidence ("Low Instincts") |
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259 | (1) |
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5.4.6 Alternative Choice Fallacy |
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260 | (1) |
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5.4.7 Complementary Treatment Fallacy |
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260 | (1) |
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5.4.8 Blinding with Science Fallacy |
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Conclusion: From Patient Problem Solving Dialogue to a Broader Communication by Knowledge Translation in Medicine |
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6 Conclusions (with a Short Recapitulation): Welcome to the World of Reasoned and Evidence-Based Medicine |
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Glossary: Preferred Terms and Their Definitions in the Context of This Book |
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Index |
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Milos Jenicek---A Biographical Sketch |
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