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To profit most from experience, the physician needs some objective means of examining his practice. Practice analysis shows what you are actually doing and provides evidence of deficiencies that need correction. Beverly Payne has found that when clinicians view their practice in the aggregate, as in research participation, “There are compelling observations that lead to significant changes in behavior.”
We physicians had need be a self-confronting and a self-reproving race; for we must be ready, without fear or favour, to call in question our own Experience and to judge it justly; to confirm it, to repeal it, to reverse it….
Peter Mere Latham1
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Manning, P.P., Debakey, L. (1987). Analysis of Practice. In: Medicine: Preserving the Passion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1954-3_10
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