Podcast: The medical art of making a diagnosis vs. certainty

AuntMinnie.com · The medical art of making a diagnosis vs certainty: Episode 4 Keeping Up With The Radiologists As a medical educator, practicing academic internal medicine physician, and hobbyist medical historian, Adam Rodman, MD, owns a mental template of medical history that he brings into the contemporary context. With this point to ponder, welcome to a new episode of "Keeping Up With the Radiologists," the podcast series brought to you by AuntMinnie.com in collaboration with Penn Radiology. Saurabh (Harry) Jha, MD, hosts this episode, the fourth in the ongoing series. To start, Jha takes a broad swing at Rodman's drive in medical history. "We both deeply wonder why," Jha begins. Why do individual radiologists, or internists, all doctors for that matter, think the way they think in the process of making diagnostic decisions? "Well," Rodman begins, "We only do things the way we do if we can do a study to show that in a randomized controlled trial .... I've always found that to be a necessary but not sufficient explanation for the beauties and horrors of human practice and custom. "In fact, if you look at historical contingencies, a lot of things make a lot more sense than if you take a sort of positive, reductionist idea to why things are the way they are. Was that too much?" Rodman asks. You can decide after listening to the episode, in which you might catch the reference to Body Snatchers or The Knife Man but probably not long enough to wonder why. What is the va...
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