Open AccessTwenty-First Century Medicine: The Fall of Occam
Author(s) -
Ben Wilson
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
canadian journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2369-1778
pISSN - 1911-1606
DOI - 10.22374/cjgim.v8i2.78
Subject(s) - subconscious , occam's razor , occam , medicine , point (geometry) , alternative medicine , epistemology , computer science , pathology , programming language , philosophy , geometry , mathematics
Medicine has evolved a great deal over the past hundred years, and the automatic and subconscious application of shortcuts increases the risk of oversimplification and inaccuracy. In this article, the author presents a case to illustrate this point.
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