RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A MUCH-NEEDED NEW MEDICAL TERM IS BORN
JF Pediatrics
JO Pediatrics
FD American Academy of Pediatrics
SP A64
OP A64
VO 79
IS 4
A1 Student,
YR 1987
UL http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/79/4/A64.2.abstract
AB A slip of the typewriter has created a term which fills a need. "Clinical gudgement" is obviously derived from "gudgeon"—a gullible person, or, from the fish of that name, one who will swallow anything (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1968). The term must refer to the practice of making clinical decisions on shaky or absent evidence; the complement, in fact, to the more familiar term. How about a "gudgement of the month" award?