Scientists at Cornell University examined the ways physicians make medical diagnoses by having them think aloud while they solved the case of a patient with liver disease.14 Astonishingly, this research team found that when they gave physicians a small gift— simply a bag of candy— those physicians were better at integrating case information and less likely to become fixated on their initial ideas, coming to premature closure in their diagnosis. Whether you’re the physician or the patient, I think you’d agree that better clinical reasoning is a good thing. Perhaps alongside the list of physical
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