Sometimes physicians can settle too quickly on a diagnosis, and then try to fit later
information with this early hypothesis; this tendency is decreased when doctors
a. ask closed-ended questions
b. listen closely to patients
c. ask all patients the same set of questions
d. do not ask any questions
e. work with groups of patients, rather than with one patient at a time
b
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