The pathologist and the diagnostic process. With a note on Edelman's Group Selection Theory and the Darwinian Computer.
In this well-detailed article, the author considers the diagnostic process phenomenologically (as it might be seen by an outsider observer) and goes on to consider the process from an aspect that is more interesting, more important, and much more difficult to understand: what goes on in a physician's mind as he makes a diagnosis.
D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D003201:Computers; D003933:Diagnosis; D004194:Disease; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D010338:Pathology, Clinical; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011584:Psychology; D009626:Terminology as Topic