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045 - Doctors - Danielle Ofri

You Are Not So Smart

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Do Doctors Recognize Their Humanity?

In your book, you write about how medical professionals are aware of certain cognitive biases. You specifically mention things like the anchoring tan, some attribution errors and things like that. Do doctors take those biases into account and guardno, i think they don't notice. In thee. Theyre often unconscious biases. Yes, doctors tare human beings to as are their patients. And patients want to be recognized as human beings, and they should be. Doctors need to do thet part of that is recognizing their own humanity.

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