Heuristics serve as a method that allows people to approach a problem in a speedy, but possibly inaccurate way. This works well when we are in situations, which requires us to make an immediate but not necessarily correct decision. However, the downside of this approach would be when the decision we make is extremely crucial to not only us, but also other people. Croskerry’s patient was a typical healthy-looking athletic man. When Croskerry saw him, he immediately thinks of him as a prototype of a healthy man, which makes no sense for him to suffer from cardiac diseases. He also encountered confirmation bias where he thinks that this man must be healthy and did a bunch of tests to verify his results. His own thinking in the first place overly influenced him, which cause him from seeing other risk factors and hence cause him to misdiagnose the …show more content…
Misjudgments also happened when doctors in general experienced representative heuristics, they have treated a good number of patients if they have been working for years. This might cause them to fit patients in the category of which they might have a prototype in mind and that have been successful in the past. For instance, Corskerry deduced that men at their mid forties are more unlikely to suffer from cardiac illness. Availability heuristics acquiesce doctors to diagnose patients with its most easily available solutions, which might also lead to wrong judgments. If a doctor have treated 5 patients with the same illness a day, he/she will more likely to assume that the next patient to suffer from the same illness if he/she has similar syndromes. Because of how recent and correct that the doctor thinks of his judgment, he/she might apply it to other patients due to its