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Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician's Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine
Snowball in a Blizzard A Physician's Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine
Author: Steven Hatch
There?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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465050642
ISBN-10: 0465050646
Publication Date: 2/23/2016
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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