The Role of Cognitive Biases in Doctors' Decision Making

Doctors started testing for pulmonary embolisms more often simply because they had recently diagnosed one. Doctors can't prevent having your last patient influence the way you search for a diagnosis on the next one unless you're aware of the bias. Grapreet Daliwal: Most students and physicians come to reason adequately using the same inborn neurocircuitary that causes us to take mental shortcuts.