This article from Academic Emergency Medicine, published in 2002, remains applicable today. It makes the point that heuristics in medicine are valuable even though they can lead to error. The article also makes the statement:
The increasing use of clinical decision rules, as well as other aids that reduce uncertainty and cognitive load, e.g., computerized clinical decision support,will improve certain aspects of clinical decision making, but much flesh-and-blood clinical decision making will remain and there will always be a place for intuition and clinical acumen.
It presents an exhaustive list with detailed descriptions of the various cognitive shortcuts.
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