You are treating a patient who was found on the floor in the nursing home. It seems evident that he has a fractured hip as he lies on the floor in pain. If you stop the search for diagnosis as soon as you come up with the cause of today's problem, this can lead to:
A. missing out on the secondary diagnosis
B. overconfidence and misdiagnosis
C. overestimating the frequency of the problem
D. all of these
Answer: A