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- Emergency Medicine Thinker
- Emergency Medicine Thinker
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Decision-Making
- 1 On Deciding to Not Decide
- 2 What Makes Emergency Medicine Decision-Making Unique and Why?
- 3 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Approach: Be Vigilant but Be Reasonable
- 4 Decision-Making in Emergency Medicine
- 5 Emergency Medicine Medical Decision-Making
- 6 Decisions
- 7 Emergency Thinking and Behavior
- 8 Emergency Medicine Decision-Making
- 9 Emergency Medicine Decision-Making
- 10 Emergency Medicine Thinking and Cognitive Load Considerations
- 11 Decision-Making in Uncertainty
- 12 Unlearning and Thinking Differently
- 13 Decision-Making in Emergency Medicine
- 14 An Object in Motion
- 15 Too Little or Too Much?
- 16 Decision-Making in Emergency Medicine
- 17 Medical Decision-Making in the Emergency Department: Balancing the Patient’s Health with the Clinician’s Perception of Risk
- Section 2 Clinical Pearls
- Index
6 - Decisions
from Section 1 - Decision-Making
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2025
- Emergency Medicine Thinker
- Emergency Medicine Thinker
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Decision-Making
- 1 On Deciding to Not Decide
- 2 What Makes Emergency Medicine Decision-Making Unique and Why?
- 3 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Approach: Be Vigilant but Be Reasonable
- 4 Decision-Making in Emergency Medicine
- 5 Emergency Medicine Medical Decision-Making
- 6 Decisions
- 7 Emergency Thinking and Behavior
- 8 Emergency Medicine Decision-Making
- 9 Emergency Medicine Decision-Making
- 10 Emergency Medicine Thinking and Cognitive Load Considerations
- 11 Decision-Making in Uncertainty
- 12 Unlearning and Thinking Differently
- 13 Decision-Making in Emergency Medicine
- 14 An Object in Motion
- 15 Too Little or Too Much?
- 16 Decision-Making in Emergency Medicine
- 17 Medical Decision-Making in the Emergency Department: Balancing the Patient’s Health with the Clinician’s Perception of Risk
- Section 2 Clinical Pearls
- Index
Summary
Make one. That is the most important thing about decisions. The absence or unwillingness to make a decision is actually a decision to ignore making a decision. Seldom is that the right answer. Deciding consciously to not respond to something (seemingly ignore) is fine, but that is then a decision. In my opinion, emergency physicians are exceptionally skilled in making decisions without having all the information. Many physicians require a bit more knowledge to inform their own decision-making. For some, there are really good reasons. For others, maybe not. From my perspective, decision-making depends upon the circumstance.
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- Emergency Medicine ThinkerPearls for the Frontlines, pp. 46 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025