News from Lake Wobegon …Clinician Gestalt Debunked?

News from Lake Wobegon…Clinician Gestalt Debunked? Acad Emerg Med. 2019 Jul 23;: Authors: Ashburn NP, Stopyra JP, Mahler SA Abstract In Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." In this fictional place of statistical impossibility, everyone is "better" than his neighbor. This fantasy world is akin to the house of medicine where we each have the tendency to believe that we are the "above average" clinician with superior insight, judgment, and reasoning. This "self-enhancement" bias empowers our gestalt far beyond its limits. PMID: 31336399 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - July 22, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Ashburn NP, Stopyra JP, Mahler SA Tags: Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research