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Dr. Stephanie Nelson returns today to talk with me about the different ways we can be wrong in our clinical decision-making. While none of us like to consider the idea that we missed a diagnosis or conceptualization, it happens far more frequently than you might think! The good news is that there are plenty of strategies to help. Here are some concepts that we touch on:

• How often are we wrong?
• What cognitive biases lead to being wrong?
• How can we be less wrong, less often?

Cool Things Mentioned

• How Doctors Think book
• Superforecasting book
• Range book
• Wordle game
• Being Wrong book
• Decisive book
• Think Again book
• Mistakes Were Made… book 

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About Dr. Stephanie Nelson

Dr. Stephanie Nelson is a pediatric neuropsychologist who specializes in complex differential diagnosis. She is board certified in both clinical neuropsychology (ABPP-CN) and pediatric neuropsychology (ABPdN). Dr. Nelson earned her undergraduate degree at Williams College and her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Vermont. She completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. After a few years in group practice in the Boston area, Dr. Nelson returned home to the Pacific Northwest in 2014 and opened her own practice. In 2018, she founded