https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/upshot/mental-shortcuts-medical-errors.html
How Common Mental Shortcuts Can Cause Major Physician Errors
Tendencies like left-digit bias can have life-altering consequences for patients.
By Anupam B. Jena and Andrew R. Olenski
Feb. 20, 2020
“But a growing body of scientific research on physician decision-making shows that doctors exhibit other biases as well — cognitive ones — that influence the way they think and treat patients. These biases lead doctors to make the same mistakes as the rest of us, but usually at a greater cost.”