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Medisophy

Acting Without Certainty | Epistemic Courage, Warranted Provisional Action, and the Medisophy of Clinical Judgment

Abstract Clinical medicine is often taught as if diagnosis must precede action with full confidence. Yet real practice...

42 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Medisophy

DIAGNOSIS AT THE EDGE OF KNOWLEDGE

A Kantian Account of Clinical Reasoning in the Light of Medisophy Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde, DNB (Internal Medicine) Phys...

15 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Medisophy

The Logic Of Diagnosis A Medisophy Epistemic Framework

Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde, DNB (Internal Medicine) Physician, Author, and Medical Philosopher Founder, The Thinking Healer...

16 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

Medisophy

Evidence & Judgment Why Science Alone Does Not Finish the Clinical Decision

A Familiar Dilemma CLINICAL SCENARIO A 72-year-old man is brought to the outpatient clinic with progressive breathlessne...

10 min read Dr. Abhijeet G. Shinde

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

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