Clinical Decision Making

•Medical practice is about using all the data available to you (history, physical, testing, etc.) to help you formulate a plan specific to your patient and their needs.

•You may need to adjust your plans or re-investigate depending on the data (especially if it doesn’t seem to be cohesive with the rest of the evidence in front of you)

•This is the heart of clinical reasoning

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•ProTip:

•In Life:  “When in doubt, don’t do” (if it was meant to be, it’ll come back to you).

•In Medicine “When in doubt, do” (you might not get another chance)

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