title: A is for aphorism - do smart mothers make better diagnoses than poor doctors?
abstract: A core skill to acquire during our medical education is the ability to identify the sick child. When presenting cases to my mentors in general practice, emergency departments and paediatric services, a recurring question asked of me was, 'What does the mother think? How worried is she that this child is really sick?' A mother's intuition ranks highly when we are looking to form a diagnosis and establish how unwell their child is.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. gcooke@bond.edu.au
authors.forename: Georga
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cooke
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003933:Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D019545:Intuition; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*