Works
- The Importance of Cognitive Errors in Diagnosis and Strategies to Minimize Them, Academic Medicine 78(8), 2003
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A physician and researcher who cataloged the cognitive dispositions to respond, such as anchoring, premature closure, and overconfidence, that lead clinicians to wrong diagnoses. He argued that clinicians can learn to debias their own reasoning, with metacognition, stepping back to examine one's own thinking, as the central strategy.