Evidence-based medicine and everyday reality.
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Abstract
Everyday-life judgements are "fast and frugal" and not numerically rigorous. Clinicians do not (yet) incorporate numerical evidence into their "thinking on the run". Evidence-based medicine is important in generating accurate data, but the existence of data doesn't ensure their use. Only "real time" observation of clinical events and the thinking that shaped them can provide plausible data on how external evidence and internal experience do, or don't, meld within clinical care.