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Medical Decision-Making

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine ((PHME,volume 119))

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As stated in several contexts in previous chapters, clinical judgment, also called clinical reasoning, clinical decision-making, and diagnostic-therapeutic decision-making, lies at the heart of clinical practice and thus medicine.

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Correspondence to Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh .

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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (2015). Medical Decision-Making. In: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 119. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9579-1_19

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