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Definition
determine or identify the nature of a problem or an illness
- When doctors are faced with a difficult diagnosis, they order more tests,Introduction (76% in)
diagnosis = identification of the nature of an illness
- " Burkin once had a client who had a breast tumor that wasn't spotted until it had metastasized, and she wanted to sue her internist for the delayed diagnosis.One — The Theory of Thin Slices (77% in)
- Cook County changed the way its physicians diagnose patients coming to the ER complaining of chest pain, and how and why they did that offers another way of understanding Paul Van Riper's unexpected triumph in Millennium Challenge.Four — Paul Van Riper's Big Victory (57% in)
- Then they would use Goldman's algorithm, and the diagnosis and outcome of every patient treated under the two systems would be compared.Four — Paul Van Riper's Big Victory (76% in)
- What Goldman's algorithm indicates, though, is that the role of those other factors is so small in determining what is happening to the man right now that an accurate diagnosis can be made without them.Four — Paul Van Riper's Big Victory (80% in)
- Doctors would do better in these cases if they knew less about their patients—if, that is, they had no idea whether the people they were diagnosing were white or black, male or female.Four — Paul Van Riper's Big Victory (82% in)
- Oskamp found that as he gave the psychologists more and more information about Kidd, their confidence in the accuracy of their diagnoses increased dramatically.Four — Paul Van Riper's Big Victory (84% in)
- It is possible to quickly diagnose the health of a marriage.Five — Kenna's Dilemma (47% in)
- What is valuable about Fyfe's diagnosis is how it turns the usual discussion of police shootings on its head.6 — Seven Seconds in the Bronx (87% in)
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