Preventable Medical Errors: The Role of Different Sciences in Medical Education and Practice addresses the issues of staying up to date with evolving medical practices, by providing practical examples linked to real-world patient safety concerns and illustrating theoretical discussions with clear clinical practice scenarios. The book is divided into two sections, Part 1 - How Did It Come To This? and Part 2 - Where Does It Go From Here?; which guide the reader through how we got here historically and how we can navigate our way out using the tools the author presents. Thus paving the way, bridging a gap between theory and practice, while emphasizing the importance of patient safety. Written for all medical professionals, at the forefront of postmodern and scientific medical advancements, to ultimately improve clinical outcomes and reduce preventable medical errors.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. Dedication - p. v 7. Preface - p. xi 8. Part 1. How Did It Come to This? - p. P1 9. Chapter 1. Paradigm Shifts in Medicine and Medical Education - p. 3 10. Chapter 2. The Need for Yet Another Paradigm Shift - p. 53 11. Chapter 3. What Kind of Science? - p. 91 12. Chapter 4. Overview of postmodernism - p. 163 13. Chapter 5. Case Study: McMaster University School of Medicine - p. 215 14. Chapter 6. Evidence-Based Medicine - p. 261 15. Part 2. Where Does It Go From Here? - p. P295 16. Chapter 7. Toward a Logical Scientific Medicine - p. 297 17. Abstract - p. 297 18. Logic? - p. 297 19. Logical challenges and the risk of preventable medical errors and consequent patient harm - p. 297 20. Relevance of deductive logic in medicine - p. 302 21. Probability calculus - p. 304 22. Prediction—the sine qua non of medicine - p. 315 23. Probability as prediction - p. 318 24. Medical reasoning of the past - p. 322 25. Analysis of the hypothetico-deductive approach and its rehabilitation - p. 324 26. Fallacy of Limited Alternatives - p. 326 27. Inclusive OROR versus exclusive OROR - p. 328 28. Estimating the probability of an element in the differential from a test - p. 329 29. Importance of a single-valued and stochastic probability calculus - p. 334 30. The practice of medicine as aprobabilistic and astatistical - p. 337 31. Psychological studies presumably demonstrating intuition - p. 345 32. Sequential probability calculus and propagation of error - p. 351 33. Rehabilitating the syllogistic Fallacy of Four Terms and Evidence-Based Medicine - p. 356 34. Medical decisions as multivariable regression analyses - p. 362 35. Modus tollens and looking for a variable that should not correlate or is contradictory - p. 366 36. Risks derived from a decline of history and physical diagnostic skills - p. 367 37. Toward a science of history taking, physical examination, and laboratory uses and their integration - p. 370 38. Rules of appreciating diagnostic tests, in the widest sense of diagnostic - p. 371 39. Stochastic probability calculus - p. 383 40. Patient-centric decisions - p. 388 41. The dilemma of the prior probability - p. 393 42. Why do probability calculus derivations? - p. 399 43. Problem-Based Learning case in medical ill-logic - p. 404 44. Takeaways - p. 407 45. Chapter 8. Cartesian Science - p. 411 46. Chapter 9. The Means and Obstacles to Knowledge - p. 481 47. Chapter 10. Victim of One’s Own Success - p. 517 48. Chapter 11. Medicine in a Silent War With Itself - p. 535 49. Glossary of concepts - p. 543 50. Bibliography - p. 559 51. Index - p. 579
Preventable Medical Errors: The Role of Different Sciences in Medical Education and Practice addresses the issues of staying up to date with evolving medical practices, by providing practical examples linked to real-world patient safety concerns and illustrating theoretical discussions with clear clinical practice scenarios. The book is divided into two sections, Part 1 - How Did It Come To This? and Part 2 - Where Does It Go From Here?; which guide the reader through how we got here historically and how we can navigate our way out using the tools the author presents. Thus paving the way, bridging a gap between theory and practice, while emphasizing the importance of patient safety. Written for all medical professionals, at the forefront of postmodern and scientific medical advancements, to ultimately improve clinical outcomes and reduce preventable medical errors.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. Dedication - p. v 7. Preface - p. xi 8. Part 1. How Did It Come to This? - p. P1 9. Chapter 1. Paradigm Shifts in Medicine and Medical Education - p. 3 10. Chapter 2. The Need for Yet Another Paradigm Shift - p. 53 11. Chapter 3. What Kind of Science? - p. 91 12. Chapter 4. Overview of postmodernism - p. 163 13. Chapter 5. Case Study: McMaster University School of Medicine - p. 215 14. Chapter 6. Evidence-Based Medicine - p. 261 15. Part 2. Where Does It Go From Here? - p. P295 16. Chapter 7. Toward a Logical Scientific Medicine - p. 297 17. Abstract - p. 297 18. Logic? - p. 297 19. Logical challenges and the risk of preventable medical errors and consequent patient harm - p. 297 20. Relevance of deductive logic in medicine - p. 302 21. Probability calculus - p. 304 22. Prediction—the sine qua non of medicine - p. 315 23. Probability as prediction - p. 318 24. Medical reasoning of the past - p. 322 25. Analysis of the hypothetico-deductive approach and its rehabilitation - p. 324 26. Fallacy of Limited Alternatives - p. 326 27. Inclusive OROR versus exclusive OROR - p. 328 28. Estimating the probability of an element in the differential from a test - p. 329 29. Importance of a single-valued and stochastic probability calculus - p. 334 30. The practice of medicine as aprobabilistic and astatistical - p. 337 31. Psychological studies presumably demonstrating intuition - p. 345 32. Sequential probability calculus and propagation of error - p. 351 33. Rehabilitating the syllogistic Fallacy of Four Terms and Evidence-Based Medicine - p. 356 34. Medical decisions as multivariable regression analyses - p. 362 35. Modus tollens and looking for a variable that should not correlate or is contradictory - p. 366 36. Risks derived from a decline of history and physical diagnostic skills - p. 367 37. Toward a science of history taking, physical examination, and laboratory uses and their integration - p. 370 38. Rules of appreciating diagnostic tests, in the widest sense of diagnostic - p. 371 39. Stochastic probability calculus - p. 383 40. Patient-centric decisions - p. 388 41. The dilemma of the prior probability - p. 393 42. Why do probability calculus derivations? - p. 399 43. Problem-Based Learning case in medical ill-logic - p. 404 44. Takeaways - p. 407 45. Chapter 8. Cartesian Science - p. 411 46. Chapter 9. The Means and Obstacles to Knowledge - p. 481 47. Chapter 10. Victim of One’s Own Success - p. 517 48. Chapter 11. Medicine in a Silent War With Itself - p. 535 49. Glossary of concepts - p. 543 50. Bibliography - p. 559 51. Index - p. 579
