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How to read clinical journals: X. How to react when your colleagues haven't read a thing
Steven L. Shumak and Donald A. Redelmeier
CMAJ December 12, 2000 163 (12) 1570-1572;
Steven L. Shumak
Drs. Shumak and Redelmeier are with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Donald A. Redelmeier
Drs. Shumak and Redelmeier are with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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How to read clinical journals: X. How to react when your colleagues haven't read a thing
Steven L. Shumak, Donald A. Redelmeier
CMAJ Dec 2000, 163 (12) 1570-1572;
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- 1. Assume responsibility for their mistake
- 2. Pretend you misheard
- 3. Blame someone or something else
- 4. Pretend you think they're joking
- 5. Give permission for error
- 6. Find the one in a million case where they're right and segue back to reality
- 7. Make the mistake part of a raging academic debate
- 8. Rejoice in finding an ally against Nature's absurdity
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