title: [Clinical thinking in neurosurgery].
abstract: The paper proposes the clinical thinking of a physician to be defined as his/her ability to cover, analyze, and synthesize all available data on a patient, concurrently to compare with early history data, to have knowledge gained from books, to have intuition (experience) to make a diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment policy. It also considers the relationship of clinical thinking to present-day diagnosis, prediction, and surgical and medical management policy in neurosurgical patients by presenting specific illustrations.
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Likhterman
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000523:psychology*