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Generation of Diagnostic Hypotheses Because the generation and evaluation of appropriate diagnostic hypotheses is a skill that not all clinicians possess to an equal degree, errors in this process can occur; in the patient with serious acute illness these may lead to tragic consequences. Consider the following hypothetical example. A 45-year-old male patient with a 3-week history of a “flulike” upper respiratory infection (URI) presented to his physician with symptoms of dyspnea and a productive cough.
FURTHER READING COLLINS FS: Shattuck Lecture: Medical and societal consequences of the Human Genome Project. N Engl J Med 341:28, 1999 COUNCIL ON GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION: Thirteenth Report: Physi- 2 cian Education for a Changing Health Care Environment. US Department of Health and Human Services, March 1999 LUDMERER KM: Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care. New York, Oxford, 1999 PROJECT OF THE ABIM FOUNDATION, ACP-ASIM FOUNDATION, AND EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF INTERNAL MEDICINE: Medical professionalism in the new millennium: A physician charter.
As a group, internists lagged several years behind gastroenterologists. The opinion of influential leaders can also have an important effect on practice patterns. , local educational programs, “curbside consultants”). Opinion leaders do not have to be physicians. When conducting rounds with clinical pharmacists, physicians are less likely to make medication errors and more likely to use target levels of evidence-based therapies. The patient’s welfare is not the only concern that drives clinical decisions.