The vice president later backed off, but Mr. Obama — who disagreed strongly with the view — has come to see Mr. Biden as a useful contrarian in the course of decision-making.
On the other hand, most participants made clear that they could not simply endorse a course of care that they did not feel would work should patients consult with them about international care options in the course of decision-making.
When patients who are driven by the hope of finding a life saving or life changing procedure abroad turn to online sources for information on experimental or alternative treatments it may undermine the physician's ability to caution patients in the course of decision-making.
This was a minority perspective, though, as most participants who discussed the pursuit of experimental care abroad by patients were concerned about the quality of care and high costs and struggled to balance these concerns against not eroding hope in the course of decision-making.
The deliberation sessions will be observed to analyze the course of discussions and decision making.
We aren't really talking about farming, of course, but rather decision making in the context of finance industry leadership.
In academia, decision scientists are often scattered in schools of business, public policy, and in engineering or operations management, where departments offer individual courses in decision making.
Her main research area is qualitative research in patient empowerment and development of training courses for informed decision making.
"Emergency physicians are required to make an unusually high number of decisions in the course of their work," he wrote in "Achieving Quality in Clinical Decision Making: Cognitive Strategies and Detection of Bias," an article published in Academic Emergency Medicine, in 2002.
