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Medical practice—from testing methods to diagnostic reasoning, treatment protocols, and prognostic evaluations—is often both complex and uncertain. Via an examination of three case studies, this chapter demonstrates that effective management of diagnostic uncertainty must begin with an ability to recognize and acknowledge it in routine cases in the clinical setting. However, even when diagnostic uncertainty is recognized, this alone is not enough for effective diagnostic practice: Once it is recognized, it must then also be clearly communicated to the patient. If these steps are taken in routine cases, then it will become automatic to do so in even the most complex situations, and diagnostic practice will be the better for it. |
