Critical Thinking and Physical Diagnosis

Question 1

Diagnose problem

Answer 1

Pattern recognition, sampling the universe, using algorithms, and hypothesis generation and testing

Question 2

Occam’s razor

Answer 2

All findings should be unified into one diagnosis (not always true esp. the older people get)

Question 3

Bayes Theorem

Answer 3

Likelihood of your diagnosis being related to your findings depends on:
Probability of those findings being associated with that diagnosis
Prevalence of both that particular diagnosis and that combination of findings in the community

Question 4

Barriers to critical thinking

Answer 4

Feelings, attitudes, and values
Mechanistic thinking - something MUST be certain
Probablism holds that certainty is impossible
MUST have a balance between the teo