How anchoring bias in medicine missed a heart attack
3 a.m. was the time I witnessed a case that changed the way I think.
He came in complaining of epigastric pain. He had eaten a whole chicken that night, a heavy meal, a simple explanation. The residents in the emergency department, exhausted at the end of a 15-hour shift and overwhelmed by the crowd of patients around them, gave him an IV H2 blocker and left him for monitoring. He …
How anchoring bias in medicine missed a heart attack
