On the Difficulty of Noticing Obvious Features in Patient Appearance
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 11 (2) , 112-117
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00225
Abstract
Medical students and experts were given head-and-shoulder photographs of patients, each showing a key feature of the patient's problem. Three quarters of these pictures were taken from textbooks. N...Keywords
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