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Clinical Judgement— Evidence in Practice
  1. Peter Toon
  1. General practitioner, London, UK

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    R S Downie, Jane Macnaughton, Oxford, OUP, 2000, 212 pages, £19.95.

    The authors define the aims of this book as being: (1) to make a case for the centrality and irreplaceability of clinical judgment; (2) to identify the elements of good clinical judgment, and (3) to suggest how these might be developed by using the humanities in medical education.

    The book's message could be summarised as “evidence based practice is not enough”. The case is made by looking at four elements of judgment. Science is not merely a question of facts but also …

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