Yes, the information is generalisable. Critical care doctors would be expected to outperform PCPs on a specialised function they perform regularly, and nonetheless have very low sensitivity.
Unless you think it’s plausible PCPs would outperform critical care doctors on abdominal auscultation for detecting haemmorhages, I see no reason why it is irrelevant to the case.
The PCP could say “I don’t know this, go to a specialist to find out” or in some cases (especially the critical care doctor) the PCP may not be faced with such a case in the first place.
That doesn’t show that PCP are bad at diagnosing the cases that they do face and that they don’t send to other doctors.
I also noticed things like using behavior from non PCP doctors, like critical care doctors, to make conclusions about PCPs.
Yes, the information is generalisable. Critical care doctors would be expected to outperform PCPs on a specialised function they perform regularly, and nonetheless have very low sensitivity.
Unless you think it’s plausible PCPs would outperform critical care doctors on abdominal auscultation for detecting haemmorhages, I see no reason why it is irrelevant to the case.
The PCP could say “I don’t know this, go to a specialist to find out” or in some cases (especially the critical care doctor) the PCP may not be faced with such a case in the first place.
That doesn’t show that PCP are bad at diagnosing the cases that they do face and that they don’t send to other doctors.