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Guest post: Teaching physicians to “think with ink”

by James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, CCDS

Several journals recently challenged our proficiency in diagnostic decision-making. A lead article in the September 12, 2017 Annals of Internal Medicine asserts that “several signs indicate that the focus on diagnostic reasoning in internal medicine training may be threatened.”

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