By Marcia Frellick
Medscape.com
Originally published November 24, 2015
Profession intuition — the gut feeling doctors get with experience and instinct that something just isn't right — is under assault, Robert Wachter, MD, professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told the audience at TEDMED 2015.
"It's suspicious, it's soft, it's squishy," said Dr Wachter, the physician who, along with Lee Goldman, MD, coined the word "hospitalist" in 1996 (N Engl J Med. 1996;335:514-517).
"There's not an algorithm for it, it's not evidence-based," he explained. And "it's antidemocratic, it's paternalistic."
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