Note Text: 1625 Emotional reasoning in patients and doctors

[Emotion can disrupt reasoning.] …a patient is more likely to prefer a treatment if told that 90 percent of those treated are alive five years later, than if told that 10 percent are dead….Physicians respond no differently than non-physician patients.

Damasio, Antonio R., "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain", Penguin Books, 1994, 53-4