Curious people’s thoughts about the effects of some clinical experience with relatively less frequent conditions.
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On the one hand, some direct experience with less common clinical conditions is a good thing.
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On the other hand, can limited clinical experience create cognitive distortions about the actual range of how the condition presents?
“I have a seen a few cases of X condition, and all the patients presented like this.”
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“I have a seen a few cases of X condition, and all the patients presented like this.”
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It may very well be the case the personal experience one has had with certain conditions might be an inaccurate representation of the true range of how a particular condition presents.
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Put another way, a single clinician’s experience, especially if relatively limited with a less common condition, might not be able to match the actual published literature about a condition.
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This inherent cognitive distortion, which is caused by the general tendency of human beings to think in stories rather than data, is important to be aware of.
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So, in summary, direct experience is of course valuable but has the potential to create an incorrect impression if not balanced by the actual data governing a particular clinical situation.
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Curious about #MedTwitter’s thoughts on this potential tension between personal clinical experience and published data with much larger numbers of patients!
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