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Sammy Credit with the American College of Physicians.

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answer three questions, and get CME Credit.

And with that, let's dive to this thought-provoking topic.

Hi, there, court I am listeners.

Today we have a case that is not necessarily dynamically challenging like the past episodes, but it's a case that got me thinking about other aspects of clinical reasoning, and I'm hoping to share what I learned with you.

In the past episodes, we have touched on some clinical reasoning topics like you probably have heard of many times by now.

Fast versus slow thinking, problem representation, illness script, dynastous schema, etc.

But I've been thinking, we usually talk about those concepts,

us if our brains were isolated entities that are just

co-independent processors of clinical information.

But that's not the case.

A lot of the times my ability to think is very much affected by many contextual

and environmental factors.

You're right, Cindy.

We simply don't reason in a vacuum.

And in this episode, we hope to convince you that the ability to recognize,

adjust, and counter these external factors

is a distinct form of expertise,

one that we see in a lot of excellent physicians,

though we might not always appreciate it,

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