How do you clinch the diagnosis efficiently? In this audio essay I review some of the main clinical reasoning styles that physicians of all specialties must use when presented with a new clinical case. Namely, we discuss inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, and pattern-matching. Being able to identify which reasoning process you’re using in a case could save you from diagnostic errors. In a follow-up episode I will give some longer-form concrete examples.

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