Abstract
Picture yourself in a casino sitting at the roulette table. Will you put your money on either black or red, or will you go for a riskier choice and place...
Highlights
Picture yourself in a casino sitting at the roulette table
Doctors working in three emergency departments (ED) read four clinical vignettes each accompanied by four quite distinct options for management, all of which might be deemed clinically acceptable
The four options offered for each vignette included two management plans one would characterise as ‘risk averse’— requiring further tests and/or admission of the patient to hospital
Summary
Picture yourself in a casino sitting at the roulette table. Will you put your money on either black or red, or will you go for a riskier choice and place it on just a single number? But before you can make up your mind, the elderly, obese smoker to your right reaches for his chest and collapses.
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