Snowball in a blizzard : a physician's notes on uncertainty in medicine / Steven Hatch.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]Description: p. ; cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780465050642 (hc)
- 616.07/5 23
- RC71 .H38 2016
- WB 141
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Primum non nocere : the motivations and hazards of overdiagnosis -- Vignette : the perils of predictive value -- Snowball in a blizzard -- The pressures of managing pressure -- Lyme's false prophets : chronic fatigue, tick-borne illness, and the overselling of certainty -- The origins of knowledge and the seeds of uncertainty -- The correlation/causation problem, or why dark chocolate may not lower your risk of heart failure -- Health watch : hype, hysteria, and the media's overconfident march of progress -- Conclusion : the conversation.