Astro Journals

Join PRO Executive Editor Suzanne Evans and negotiation and ethics professor Daylian Cain as they discuss their recent article “Why Smart Oncology Clinicians do Dumb Things: A Review of Cognitive Bias in Radiation Oncology.” The article identifies many common biases in the field, factors that increase our susceptibility to bias and ways that we can combat cognitive biases. The authors explain the concepts of metacognition as well as strategies to improve our critical thinking such as "taking the opposite," "summarize aloud" and "prospective hindsight." Music by D. Tegbaru, used with permission.