Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician's Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine

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Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician's Notes on Uncertainty in MedicineThere's a running joke among radiologists: finding a tumor in a mammogram is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. A bit of medical gallows humor, this simile illustrates the difficulties of finding signals (the snowball) against a background of noise (the blizzard). Doctors are faced with similar difficulties every day when sifting through piles of data from blood tests to X rays to endless lists of patient symptoms. Diagnoses are often just

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