Good clinical care requires understanding statistics

The beginning of wisdom is to recognize our own ignorance. We psychiatrists, like other physicians, do not always know how to make a diagnosis or to determine optimal therapy. If we did, then we would not need to read anything-much less this article. We could treat our patients with the infallible k...

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Published inPsychiatric Times Vol. 26; no. 3; p. 31
Main Author Ghaemi, Seyyed Nassir
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Monmouth Junction Intellisphere, LLC 01.03.2009
UBM LLC
Subjects
Analysis
Medical statistics
Mental health care
Practice
Psychiatrists
Psychiatry
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Summary:The beginning of wisdom is to recognize our own ignorance. We psychiatrists, like other physicians, do not always know how to make a diagnosis or to determine optimal therapy. If we did, then we would not need to read anything-much less this article. We could treat our patients with the infallible knowledge that we already possess.
ISSN:0893-2905