People have the tendency to cut corners sometimes. This might come as a surprise to some, but in some cases doctors are no exception.
That said, cutting corners doesn’t necessarily mean that the job is done lazily. For a doctor this can happen because they are pressed for time, they are making an inference based off of prior experience, even outside forces could be pressuring them to fill in a number here and there.
When cutting corners like this becomes routine, we get institutional bias.
Our interview with Dr. John Alchemy covers institutional bias, why it happens, and what doctors could do to avoid dragging out their claims by letting their bias get the better of them. Listen to the podcast on iTunes here.
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