Tag: gestalt
When is a Door Not a Door? Bias, Heuristics & Metacognition
This is an amended version of a talk on metacognition I gave at the Royal North Shore Hospital Grand Round. The clinical scenario has changed but the content remains the same. The purpose of this …
Getting your chest pain evaluation right: #UMECS16
Last week, while Iain was giving a keynote lecture in Austria, I was also heading for distant shores to speak about chest pain evaluation at a special conference set up by the legendary Amal Mattu: …
Guess or Gestalt in Major Trauma at St.Emlyn’s
I was recently fortunate enough to speak at the the Emergency Medicine Educators Conference in Coventry on a subject that continues to interest me, that of gestalt, judgement and clinical decision making. As I get …
When we are the Diagnostic Test – Gestalt at St Emlyns
There are many reasons why I enjoy being part of the St Emlyn’s team, not least the chance to share ideas and beliefs about EM with some of the most thoughtful physicians I’ve ever met. …
How accurate is clinical judgement for acute coronary syndromes?
This blog post is based on the paper published in the EMJ this week – Body R et al. Can emergency physicians rule in or rule out acute coronary syndromes using clinical judgement? EMJ 2014 …
Feeling in the gut or thinking in the brain..?
No more than a couple of days go by without someone around me using the phrase “gut feeling”, not just in a healthcare context but in all aspects of life. Sensing something, without the information …