White coats and fingerprints: diagnostic reasoning in medicine and investigative methods of fictional detectives.

Rapezzi, Claudio; Ferrari, Roberto; Branzi, Angelo · BMJ · 2005

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Abstract

Current trends toward routine mass use of sophisticated diagnostic tools is killing off the science and art of clinical reasoning. An ideal clinician would present a harmonic fusion of almost all the investigative methods of fictional detectives and avoid slavish adherence to protocols and procedures

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