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Which of the following is a key area of medical decision making?
Diagnosing the illness with which patients present
What is the least reliable approach for making decisions based on partial evidence?
Opinion revision or 'heuristic and biases'
Which of the following is a way doctors achieve diagnosis?
Hypothesis testing
What is an example of a heuristic that can lead to error in medical decision making?
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What is an example of a difficulty in medical decision making mentioned in the text?
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Which of the following is NOT a way doctors achieve diagnosis, according to the text?
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What is the term used in the text to describe the 'gold star' level of decision making?
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Which of the following is an example of a heuristic mentioned in the text?
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What is the term used in the text to describe the comparison of patterns of symptoms with disease prototypes?
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