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Tra i radiologi si dice che trovare un tumore in una mammografia è come trovare una palla di neve in una tormenta. Umorismo nero tra medici che illustra le difficoltà di trovare segnali (palle di neve) entro un ambiente pieno di segnali disturbanti (tormenta). I medici affrontano problemi simili ogni giorno quando vagliano montagne di dati provenienti dagli esami del sangue, dai raggi X o dall'infinita lista dei sintomi dei pazienti. Ammettiam...

There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a tumor in a mammogram is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. A bit of medical gallows humour, this simile illustrates the difficulties of finding signals (the snowball) against a background of noise (the blizzard). Doctors are faced with similar difficulties every day when sifting through piles of data from blood tests to X-rays to endless lists of patient symptoms.Diagnoses are often j...

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What does it feel like to be a medical student during the third year -- the first "true" year of medical school, when eager-eyed but utterly ignorant apprentice physicians are released from the library and unleashed on unsuspecting patients? How does one manage to appear even remotely competent after dropping a ten-pound ovarian tumor on the floor? Steven Hatch seeks to explain these questions, providing readers with the texture of this crucia...