THIN SLICING

With time and experience, your subconscious will immediately begin “thin slicing,” as Malcolm Gladwell puts it in his book Blink. The term “thin slicing” means making very quick inferences about the state, characteristics or details of an individual or situation with minimal amounts of information and is used subconsciously in any patient encounter. In seconds, your subconscious will immediately begin analyzing the patient’s appearance, their clothes, skin, hygiene, body language, eye contact, speech, thought process, do they appear agitated, in pain, scared, etc.