Foro Osler: our bases and goals

24 December, 2013 Foro Osler

Foro Osler: our opinion

Unsafe cognitive acts: a classification

20 December, 2013 Foro Osler

Medical practice is a mixed world between doctor,s reasoning and the environment or system around him or her. A definitive classification for cognitive mistakes can be difficult, but the original Reason classification for unsafe acts is clear and practical .

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Do we have to re-biopsy a cancer recurrence?

19 December, 2013 Foro Osler

Diagnosis is associated to the initial assesment of a clinical problem. But in some chronic diseases such as many cancers we must be sure if we are in front of the same tumor or a different one. Breast cancer is the paradigm of this situation…

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Backward clinical reasoning: the brain speaks

16 December, 2013 Foro Osler

What do you think is the key symptom in this 45 year-old female patient with a diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorder and this MNR image?

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Tumour heterogeneity: a challenge for Diagnosis

14 December, 2013 Foro Osler

Diagnosis is an exercise of categorisation. Many pathological entities are still defined using the anatomical location. Tumours are a clear example of this situation but things are now changing based on genetic profiles.

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