Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

Don’t ask your doctors what they recommend to you, ask them what they would do if it were their mother, brother, or child.

Not making a decision or procrastinating in order to avoid responsibility is the most blatant form of defensive decision making.

Altogether I have taught about one thousand doctors in their CME. Based on this, my estimate is that about 80 percent of doctors do not understand what a positive test means, even in their own specialties. They are in no position to counsel their patients adequately, nor can they critically evaluate a medical journal article in their own field.