Wishful thinking 7. The role of memory and cognitive strategies in diagnosis and decision making. Big knowledge base. Experienced clinicians have good memory for details of cases. Access through pattern recognition.
Pattern recognition is rapid.
It is hard to explain how one does it. It is hard to notice errors, to change responses. Heuristic strategies, satisficing. B. Judgment, when many sources of information must be combined. Large individual differences in doctors' strategies for integrating information are often found, and are related to differences in their judgments.