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Tolerating Uncertainty — The Next Medical Revolution?
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When we become obsessed with finding the right answer, at the risk of oversimplifying the richly iterative and evolutionary nature of clinical reasoning, the result is the very antithesis of humanistic, individualized patient-centered care.
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- Authors
- Simpkin, A. L., & Schwartzstein, R. M.
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2016-11-03
- Volume
- 375
- Issue
- 18
- Pages
- 1713-1715
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2546534702
- Cited by
- 521
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 60.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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