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

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Introduction

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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