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It is time to stop the witch hunt on intuition, and see it for what it is: a fast, automatic, subconscious processing style that can provide us with very useful information that deliberate analysing can’t. We need to accept that intuitive and analytic thinking should occur tog*ether, and be weighed up against each other in difficult decision-making situations.* *https://theconversation.com/is-it-rational-to-trust-your-gut-feelings-a-neuroscientist-explains-95086 <https://theconversation.com/is-it-rational-to-trust-your-gut-feelings-a-neuroscientist-explains-95086>* -un saludo juan gérvas @JuanGrvas 2016-12-13 12:04 GMT+01:00 Juan Gérvas <[log in to unmask]>: > As psychologists have amply and repeatedly demonstrated, *the judgments > and decisions of physicians (like those of other people) are based largely > on our intuitions (Daniel Kahneman’s System 1)*.1,2 We look for > patterns, learn quick rules of thumb, base our confidence on ease of > retrieval and coherence (not always on accuracy),3 and may substitute easy > (but less relevant) judgments for difficult ones. We have limited > capacities of attention and have trouble seeing what we are not looking > for,4 but we also tend to maintain coherence by ignoring or distorting > information that does not support our initial hypotheses.5–7 Indeed,* > looking at the long catalogue of our biases,8 it is easy to forget that, > mostly, we do quite well*. > http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0272989x16662643#ref-14 > > 2016-12-10 11:30 GMT+01:00 Juan Gérvas <[log in to unmask]>: > >> Los presentimientos: importantes en el proceso diagnóstico en medicina >> general/de familia. Desde Mallorca (España). >> >> *From Majorca (Spain) to the world. Gut feelings are important in the >> diagnostic process in general practice.* >> http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/12/e012847.full… >> <http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/12/e012847.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=b5UUQeuTzpPEG4D> >> -un saludo juan gérvas >> >> 2016-09-16 17:03 GMT+02:00 Juan Gérvas <[log in to unmask]>: >> >>> Pérdida de peso, no venía "nunca", síntomas persistentes..."huelen a >>> cáncer". "Olfato" médico general. Vía @ernestob >>> *GP's gut feeling for cancer: a useful tool in diagnosing cancer. High >>> predicting value increases if the GP is older.* >>> http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/9/e012511.long … >>> -un saludo juan gérvas @JuanGrvas >>> >> >> > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH&A=1