Research Catalog

Title

Surgical intuition : what it is and how to get it / Charles M. Abernathy, Robert M. Hamm.

Author

Abernathy, Charles.

Publication

Philadelphia : Hanley & Belfus, Inc., [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Hamm, Robert M., 1950-

Description

x, 436 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

• No algorithm, no "consensus statement," and no "standard of care" will help you now! You need intuitive type thinking, not analytical thinking. This book explores how to get it.
• Surgical Intuition offers a guided tour to becoming an expert, intuitive thinker. It is intended not only for general surgeons, but for family practitioners, primary care internists, and doctors of all specialties, as well as psychologists and cognitive scientists, because it shows that the possibilities and complexities of expert intuition are relevant to all fields of endeavor.
• The book sketches a full cognitive psychology theory of the thinking involved in expert surgery, and thus provides a description and an explanation of surgical intuition.

Subjects

• General Surgery > education
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Clinical Competence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Why a Book About Surgical Intuition? -- Ch. 2. Intuition as a Mode of Thought in Surgery -- Ch. 3. The Doctor's Task and the Mind that Accomplishes It -- Ch. 4. Surgical Scripts: The Structure of Knowledge -- Ch. 5. Problem Solving: Higher Order Thinking in Medicine -- Ch. 6. Diagnosis: The Problem of "What Is" -- Ch. 7. Decision Making: The Problem of "What to Do" -- Ch. 8. Judgment -- Ch. 9. Restructuring and Discovery -- Ch. 10. In the Mind's Eye: Visual-Thinking in Surgery -- Ch. 11. Scripts are the Foundation of Surgical Education -- Ch. 12. Epilogue: Unfinished Business.

ISBN

1560530596

LCCN

93077760

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries