Overconfidence in Clinical Decision Making

Within medicine, there are more than a dozen major disciplines and a variety of further subspecialties. They have evolved to deal with >10,000 specific illnesses, all of which must be diagnosed before patient treatment can begin. This commentary is confined to orthodox medicine; diagnosis using folk and pseudo-diagnostic methods occurs in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and is described elsewhere.1Jenicek M. Hitchcock D.L....