Introduction
During diagnostic reasoning, a clinician attempts to collect, process while also interpreting information obtained from the patient so as to generate an action plan for treatment. However, it is critical that in this process, a clinician may commit some errors that can result in a wrong diagnosis and treatment of the patient. The following section discusses three of these mistakes.
The Illusory Casualty
It is the kind of error that occurs when a clinician tends to develop a bias in finding a causal relationship even in a situation when there is none. It is a powerful bias and occurs when both the ...