Books: How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine: The Importance of Anecdote

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Kathryn Montgomery Oxford University Press USA, 2012 , PB, 256 pp, ￡20.49, 978-0199942053Kathryn Montgomery’s classic text is even more relevant to medical education and practice today than when it was published a decade ago (originally in 2005). The author acknowledges the benefits of biomedical science but argues that clinical medicine is not a science but an interpretative practice. She points out a central paradox in medicine, the disparagement of anecdote, regarded as the lowest level of evidence. …