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I want to return at this point to some rather simple and basic truths about “judgment at the bedside” (which is what clinical judgment literally means), and then to state what I think is at the root of our current failure to teach our students how to learn to make sound judgments.

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  1. Towers, B.: 1969, ‘Personal View,’ British Medical Journal 2, 443.

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© 1979 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland

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Towers, B. (1979). Round Table Discussion. In: Engelhardt, H.T., Spicker, S.F., Towers, B. (eds) Clinical Judgment: A Critical Appraisal. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9399-0_20

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