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The End: Fifteen endings to fifteen paintings, by Nicolas Ruston
https://elephantmag.com/end-fifteen-endings-fifteen-paintings/
Our mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions. It will take information it has and create a story, often not bothering for information it doesn’t have. Whether we like to acknowledge this tendency, emergency physicians formulate stories about patients. Sadly, this is often accompanied by judgment. Our patient’s presence in the emergency department is often the end result of all that happened before, or maybe not. Unfortunately, we’ve already created a story for patients--the person who crashed into a tree was intoxicated-- that can prevent us from asking different types of questions.