Medical Analogy

Medical Metaphors & Ancedotal Analogies - Patient Friendly …

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Medical metaphors & Anecdotal Analogies. We all have those moments where we would like to make a complicated concept simple. A way to break down the education and …

Analogies and metaphors in clinical medicine - PubMed

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Medicine is traditionally known as an 'art', and not an exact 'science'. Medical images of clinical signs and pathology were communicated through 'metaphors' in the 19th …

Medical Analogies: Why and How - University of Waterloo

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Analogies in medicine: valuable for learning, reasoning …

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Analogy and similarity involve a structural alignment or mapping between domains. This cognitive mechanism can be used to make inferences and learn new abstractions. …

Zebra (medicine) - Wikipedia

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If the diagnosis can be made on the basis of specific criteria, then these criteria are either fulfilled or not fulfilled. — A. McGehee Harvey, James Bordley II, Jeremiah Barondess [6] …

5 Helpful Analogies for Understanding Complex Health …

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The cars and passengers analogy lets those numbers and acronyms mean something. You don’t have to get the biochemistry of it. All you have to do is think of the …

It’s Like What You Already Know: Using Analogies to …

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1. Determine whether an analogy is necessary. Some healthcare concepts are straight forward and a simple explanation is sufficient. Save analogies for those …

medical analogies - Bradford VTS

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This form of using analogies to explain medical things is called “The Synectic Model of Teaching” – so called because synectic is a Greek work which means the joining of …

Analogies for patients in the battle against medical …

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For uncontrolled blood pressure, for instance, an analogy a provider could use is that of comparing the cardiovascular system to a city water system, with the heart …