What a joy to speak last month at dotMD, an annual festival of medical curiosity in Galway. DotMD is stirring the soup for a particularly critical community of practitioners, creatives, and leaders in medicine.

This talk felt like putting into a nutshell the last two decades of teaching, research, and obsessively observing that rare breed of clinician who both facilitates diagnosis with excellence and who cares about its process.

Collaborations with a lot of incredible colleagues at partner sites have advanced my thinking, and I’m particularly grateful to the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine for supporting my research with last year’s Fellowship in Diagnostic Excellence.

Hope you’ll check it out and join the conversation.

The talk references a few resources, listed below:

2008 Harvard study: Naghshineh S., Hafler J.P., Miller A.R., Blanco M.A., Lipsitz SR, Dubroff R.P., Khoshbin S., Katz J.T. “Formal art observation training improves medical students’ visual diagnostic skills.” Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2008; 23:991-997.

Looking with Uncertainty®: a research and course framework encapsulating the mindest and actions of effective approaches to uncertainty

The Wrestlers, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, plaster, 1914.