Montgomery's book is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion over the nature and role of clinical judgement in medical practice and is required reading for anyone interested in it.

• Introduction: rationality in an uncertain practice ; PART 1: MEDICINE AS A PRACTICE ; 1. Medicine and the limits of knowledge ; 2. The misdescription of medicine ; 3. Clinical judgement and the interpretation of case ; PART 2: CLINICAL JUDGEMENT AND THE IDEA OF CAUSE ; 4. "What brings you here today?": the idea of cause in medical practice ; 5. The simplification of clinical cause ; 6. Clinical judgement and the problem of particularizing ; PART 3: THE FORMATION OF CLINICAL JUDGEMENT ; 7. Aphorisms, maxims, and old saws: some rules of clinical reasoning ; 8. "Don't think zebras": a theory of clinical knowing ; 9. Knowing one's place: the evaluation of clinical judgement ; PART 4: CLINICAL JUDGEMENT AND THE NATURE OF MEDICINE ; 10. The self in medicine: the use and misuse of the science claim ; 11. A medicine of neighbours ; 12. Uncertainty and the ethics of practice

Montgomery's book is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion over the nature and role of clinical judgement in medical practice and is required reading for anyone interested in it.

• Introduction: rationality in an uncertain practice ; PART 1: MEDICINE AS A PRACTICE ; 1. Medicine and the limits of knowledge ; 2. The misdescription of medicine ; 3. Clinical judgement and the interpretation of case ; PART 2: CLINICAL JUDGEMENT AND THE IDEA OF CAUSE ; 4. "What brings you here today?": the idea of cause in medical practice ; 5. The simplification of clinical cause ; 6. Clinical judgement and the problem of particularizing ; PART 3: THE FORMATION OF CLINICAL JUDGEMENT ; 7. Aphorisms, maxims, and old saws: some rules of clinical reasoning ; 8. "Don't think zebras": a theory of clinical knowing ; 9. Knowing one's place: the evaluation of clinical judgement ; PART 4: CLINICAL JUDGEMENT AND THE NATURE OF MEDICINE ; 10. The self in medicine: the use and misuse of the science claim ; 11. A medicine of neighbours ; 12. Uncertainty and the ethics of practice

Montgomery's book is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion over the nature and role of clinical judgement in medical practice and is required reading for anyone interested in it.

• Introduction: rationality in an uncertain practice ; PART 1: MEDICINE AS A PRACTICE ; 1. Medicine and the limits of knowledge ; 2. The misdescription of medicine ; 3. Clinical judgement and the interpretation of case ; PART 2: CLINICAL JUDGEMENT AND THE IDEA OF CAUSE ; 4. "What brings you here today?": the idea of cause in medical practice ; 5. The simplification of clinical cause ; 6. Clinical judgement and the problem of particularizing ; PART 3: THE FORMATION OF CLINICAL JUDGEMENT ; 7. Aphorisms, maxims, and old saws: some rules of clinical reasoning ; 8. "Don't think zebras": a theory of clinical knowing ; 9. Knowing one's place: the evaluation of clinical judgement ; PART 4: CLINICAL JUDGEMENT AND THE NATURE OF MEDICINE ; 10. The self in medicine: the use and misuse of the science claim ; 11. A medicine of neighbours ; 12. Uncertainty and the ethics of practice