Snowball in a Blizzard : The Tricky Problem of Uncertainty in Medicine

Snowball in a Blizzard : The Tricky Problem of Uncertainty in Medicine

Steven Hatch

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FörlagAtlantic Books
ISBN9781782399889

LONGLISTED FOR THE THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDS According to a wry saying among radiologists, finding a tumour in a mammogram is like finding a snowball in a blizzard. Up to thirty percent of breast-cancer diagnoses are given to those who have no cancer at all. Medicine is subject to far more uncert