"My newborn baby required a rapid response: The NP that showed up had just rotated with me on the adult heme/onc service."
Patients at Risk
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The Dangers of Anchoring Bias in Medicine
This chapter explores how clinicians may fixate on initial patient self-diagnoses, sometimes overlooking critical conditions due to anchoring bias. Through the case study of Alexis Ochoa, the discussion emphasizes the need for comprehensive evaluations and contrasts the training of physicians with that of nurse practitioners to mitigate this bias.
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