Cognitive Bias (Strong Diagnosis)

A discussion of the role that cognitive bias plays in diagnostic reasoning. Can you spot all 3 Easter eggs?

(Apologies for posting this video slightly out of the prespecified order for this series)

[sunving]

Thank you again Dr Eric Strong. Your channel are the best in medical educations. You teach me at least to
think !

[lakewaterlapping]

Such an important topic. Biases are so easy to perpetuate in a patient's clinical course, so being aware of 'meta-cognition' and its sequelae are crucial for any clinician.


I'm reminded of the Feynman quote: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool."

[Carolina-yhvq]

Hello Dr. Strong,
Thank you for this fantastic video. The whole Clinical Reasoning series is useful and enjoyable. Please post more!

[quadtos]

One of the few most underrated channels!
Thank you Eric for your hard work. I instantly subscribed after listening to a few of your lectures! Keep up the great work!! 👍

[racoon]

I just wanted to thank your for putting out these videos for free! I am a medical student from germany and i really think u taught me much more about how to work and think as a physician than my university did.

[BR]

Great video as always Dr. thanks for your hard work and dedication! Greetings from Guatemala

[pedroparamo]

Brilliant video.

Doctors in my country have no idea about those notions ;(

[thienpham]

Thank you so much for this helpful video, there were many times we made a misdiagnosis, but could not get a picture or a method so that we could realize what had happened in our patients, or in our colleagues’ and even in our own mind. I’m really interested in the animations used to present those biases, I would share it to my colleagues.

[SajanAcharya]

Haha, that ER doc though!! I am sure he was playing Fifa!

[fmleverynameistakenx]

Great video, and very helpful - thanks!

[mudasirahmed]

Helo Doc
Tq for this amazing topic
But Nevertheless If a clinician is more aggressive towards minimising Bias hence minimising misdiagnosis one could end up doing overdiagnosis So what could be the possible solution and ideology to maintain a balance between these two, , , ?

[xitrumlon]

thank you for this amazing video, keep up with the good work!

[ΆγιοςΧίλαριος]

Regarding commission bias, would therapeutic action still be a bias if the physician were "not sure" if it is possibly an occult MI (and no other cause of the mildly elevated troponin eg, kidney failure, lab error etc) and went into treatment for a possible ACS [which is also overtreatment for a possible low risk PE and d-dimer would be somehow useless] and cardiology consult were inconclusive? It looks sometimes one will commit omission or commission bias anyway.

[GianCarloFeoli]

Hello do yiu have an email so I could ask a question related to one of your videos? Particularly related to the weigh loss video, best regards.

[AK-qkjo]

I want to know the reference source of the biases listed in the 2 tables for types of diagnostic biases and types of therapeutic biases shown at 11.18

[SajanAcharya]

Will you still be able to conduct that experiment? I mean the students will know now, won't day?

[carlovalerio]

Que detallazo el del doctor jugando videojuegos.

[shwetadubey]

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