PRINCIPLES OF INFORMAL REASONING, DIAGNOSTIC MEDICINE AND MALINGERING DETECTION

By Charles Barkemeyer M.D.

Malingering detection is an integral part of diagnostic medicine. To identify malingering, physicians have to recognize errors in reasoning.In this book, I discuss the principles of informal reasoning and the application of these principles to diagnostic medicine and malingering detection.The accurate diagnosis of a patient's medical disorder is dependent on the ability of a physician to perform a competent clinical evaluation and to correctly determine the clinical significance of appropriate diagnostic test results. This requires a physician to have knowledge of the subject matter and to have the ability to reason correctly.Malingering occurs when a patient makes a false claim of having a medical disorder for the purpose of personal gain. Malingerers use errors in reasoning to manipulate physicians into believing or pretending to believe that false claims are true.If a physician is unable to differentiate correct reasoning from faulty reasoning then errors in reasoning will become incorporated into his/her reasoning process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1983082333
• ISBN13: 9781983082337
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 61 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"