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Common Physician Thought Distortions - Series Overview

Our series on Common Physician Thought Distortions, where we explore the mental patterns that add unnecessary challenges to o...

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Common Physician Thought Distortions, Overgeneralization

We continue to look at common thought distortions affecting the entire population that do not spare us as a physician communi...

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Common Physician Thought Distortions, Mind-Reading and Personalization

Continuing our series on thought distortions, we will look at two more in the assumption category this week - mind-reading an...

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Common Physician Thought Distortions, Jumping to Conclusions and Catastrophizing

This week we are moving into what I classify as the assumption category of thought distortions. We will look at the first two...

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Common Physician Thought Distortions, Should-statements and Polarization

Last week, I introduced the most common thought error patterns in physicians. This week we will look at two prevalent distort...

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Common Physician Thought Distortions, Overview

Piggybacking on the Optimizing Our Mindset as Physicians series, I’d like to bring to light some common thought distortions t...

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