As healthcare changes, adopting increasing evidence for its interventions, there is a body of work trying to understand exactly how clinicians and their patients make individual decisions. There are five accepted influences at work. One of these is the experience of the clinician (and to a degree of the patient who may be in a position previously experienced)
Arguments for decision making less dominated by public knowledge, "evidence", talk up the value of the clinicians' experience. Is this warranted?
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