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Getting the diagnosis correct and avoiding ‘anchor bias’

Conversely, anchor bias might also occur if a doctor considers only the initial information and incorrectly diagnoses Lyme disease and misses the true diagnosis. Aguirre and colleagues describe this scenario in their paper Anchoring Bias, Lyme Disease, and the Diagnosis Conundrum. [1] A 29-year-old man living in Florida presented with severe headaches, fever, myalgia, and […]

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