EmergencyPedia - November 24, 2015 - By Andrew Coggins
Why is this topic important?
- Medicine is delivered by ‘humans’ to ‘humans’
- Inevitably this is an error prone interaction
- Tendency toward error is amplified by time pressures as well as high levels of emotional and physical stress
- We have a lack of education on how to ‘think about thinking‘
ACEM 2015 – Emergency Physicians need to be expert diagnosticians of the patient ANDthemselves
http://emergencypedia.com/2015/11/24/fast-thinking-in-emergency-medicine/