{"id":1894,"date":"2004-01-01T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/01\/the-dean-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2004-01-01T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2004-01-01T14:27:37","slug":"the-dean-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/01\/the-dean-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dean Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2169'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/howsmi.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\">The<br \/>\n        Boston Globe<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/HarpersIndex2003-11.html\"><\/a> recently<br \/>\n        did an in depth interview with Democratic frontrunner Howard Dean in<br \/>\n        which they asked him how he reaches decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is quite revealing and reflects Dean&#8217;s mediacal training;<br \/>\n        basically, he collects all of the facts and symptoms, and makes a diagnosis<br \/>\n        based on experience and intuition. One can only hope he knows when its<br \/>\n        time to send the patient to a specialist&#8230;..<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;So you basically put together your best guess about what the<br \/>\n          problem is, and then you choose an array of options given what you<br \/>\n          think the<br \/>\n        problem is, and to do that you have to know what the risks and rewards<br \/>\n        are of each option. It really is, it&#8217;s an amazing parallel to medicine,<br \/>\n        because first you&#8217;ve got to figure out what the problem is, and you hope<br \/>\n        you&#8217;re right. And then you&#8217;ve got to figure out what the highest-reward,<br \/>\n        least-risk option is, and there are some values involved. . .&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2004\/01\/01\/decisions_involve_diagnosis_intuition\/\">the Boston<br \/>\n        Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe recently did an in depth interview with Democratic frontrunner Howard Dean in which they asked him how he reaches decisions. The answer is quite revealing and reflects Dean&#8217;s mediacal training; basically, he collects all of the facts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/01\/the-dean-diagnosis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}