Today, doctors make diagnoses based on their judgement.
But bringing life histories back into the picture isn't going to make diagnoses any more scientific.
To make diagnoses, most doctors rely on shortcuts and rules of thumb — known in psychology as "heuristics".
This is supposed to make diagnoses more reliable: a laudable aim.
They make diagnoses, prescribe medications and order and perform diagnostic tests.
In addition, it intends to regulate clinical decision-support software, which helps make diagnoses or recommends treatments.
While fMRI dates back to the early 1990s, hitherto it has been used mainly by doctors in hospitals to make diagnoses.
We retreat from the broad plains of history into smoke-filled rooms where sects plot, splinter, make diagnoses of society which promptly implode.
Then he approached Dr. Ohlin, one of the top cardiologists in Sweden, and asked him to make diagnoses on 2,240 EKGs from the hospital files.
But for doctors, it can seriously impede the ability to make diagnoses, particularly in areas related to attention, communication and language development.
They don't usually make diagnoses based on a few casual observations without the benefit of any background notes; it isn't surprising they got it wrong.
