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    Believing in Overcoming Cognitive Biases
    (AMA, 2020-09) Doherty, Tiffany S.; Carroll, Aaron E.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Like all humans, health professionals are subject to cognitive biases that can render diagnoses and treatment decisions vulnerable to error. Learning effective debiasing strategies and cultivating awareness of confirmation, anchoring, and outcomes biases and the affect heuristic, among others, and their effects on clinical decision making should be prioritized in all stages of education.