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Dr Shock MD PhD
Part of practicing medicine is the recognition of patterns. You need to get the symptoms, physical examination and lab results and review the data to recognize the big picture called diagnoses. The only difference between residents and specialists is the speed at which they arrive at the correct diagnoses. The specialist mostly get there quicker. It becomes interesting when symptoms or findings are out of the ordinary. When new data or different patterns appear not belonging to the well known patterns. The ability to discover these out of the ordinary symptoms and patterns together with the ability to understand new orderly relationships is the intellectual challenge of being a good physician.
This curiosity is not reserved for physicians, other professions also share this quality. I am inclined to think that detectives also benefit from this characteristic and that’s why psychiatrists like detectives on television.
Interested in this subject of curiosity and the neuroscience of this phenomenon I tried to find literature on the subject, which wasn’t easy. The term in the scientific literature mostly covering the aspects of curiosity is creative innovation. Published research on this topic is also scares.
creativity is defined as the ability to understand, develop and express in a systematic …