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Medisophy

Occam’s Razor vs. Hickam’s Dictum A Concise Philosophy of Clinical Reasoning

Introduction: The Problem Every Clinician Faces Every clinical encounter begins with uncertainty. A patient arrives car...

6 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Medisophy

The Belief Stabilization Threshold: The Hidden Moment Diagnosis Becomes Belief

Clinical diagnosis is traditionally portrayed as the outcome of rational evidence accumulation and systematic analytical...

17 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Medisophy

Skepticism As A Meta-regulatory Tool In Clinical Reasoning: Toward A Logic Of Medical Knowing

Dr Abhijeet G. Shinde, DNB (Internal Medicine)Physician • Author • Medical PhilosopherFounder, The Thinking Healer™ A...

4 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Medisophy

The Curve That Heals: Healing As An Asymptote

“Healing is not the conquest of disease, but the quiet mathematics of becoming—where life moves infinitely closer to wh...

5 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Medisophy

When Spinoza Wore A White Coat

What would it mean if Baruch Spinoza—the 17th-century philosopher of reason, determinism, and joy—walked into our world...

3 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Journal

Lifeology From Do Aankhen Barah Haath: The Six Inner Enemies

Introduction — The Prison Beyond Walls Cinema can be philosophy in motion. It does not merely entertain; it reveals the...

9 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Physician Reflections

The Trilogy of Clinical Wisdom

Knowing, Trust, and Judgement in Modern Clinical Practice Abstract Despite unprecedented advances in biomedical scienc...

7 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Physician Reflections

Therapeutic Nihilism: The Dark Side of Evidence-Based Medicine

Abstract Evidence-based medicine (EBM) transformed modern healthcare by replacing anecdote with rigour and authority wi...

5 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Medisophy

Trust: The Invisible Architecture of Healing

A Scientific, Philosophical, and Clinical Examination of Medicine’s Most Powerful Tool Abstract Modern medicine has ac...

12 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

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