Critical Thinking for 21st-Century Medicine—Moving Beyond Illness Scripts

This Viewpoint explores how critical thinking based on the principles of human pathophysiology could improve clinicians’ clinical reasoning skills vs a more traditional illness script–based approach.

Corresponding Author: Richard M. Schwartzstein, MD, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215 (rschwart@bidmc.harvard.edu).

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