All 9 Uses of
diagnose
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- When doctors are faced with a difficult diagnosis, they order more tests,
Chpt Intr. *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.†
Chpt 1diagnosis = the identification of the cause of a problem or illness
- 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.†
Chpt 4diagnose = determine or identify the nature of a problem or an illness
- Then they would use Goldman's algorithm, and the diagnosis and outcome of every patient treated under the two systems would be compared.†
Chpt 4diagnosis = the identification of the cause of a problem or illness
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
Chpt 4diagnosing = determining or identifying the nature of a problem or an illness
- Oskamp found that as he gave the psychologists more and more information about Kidd, their confidence in the accuracy of their diagnoses increased dramatically.†
Chpt 4diagnoses = causes of problems or illnesses; or processes to identify such problems
- It is possible to quickly diagnose the health of a marriage.†
Chpt 5diagnose = determine or identify the nature of a problem or an illness
- What is valuable about Fyfe's diagnosis is how it turns the usual discussion of police shootings on its head.†
Chpt 6diagnosis = the identification of the cause of a problem or illness