What This Book Owns, Borrows, and Refuses
A single horizontal band divided into six equal step-named segments, with a hatched wedge on the right quarter of "Prioritize Hypotheses" tagged "RANKING BY FRAMEWORK → BOOK 03," and a bracket beneath the whole band labeled "THIS BOOK, FULL DEPTH."
The scope contract
| OWNS | BORROWS | DOES NOT COVER |
|---|---|---|
| The six steps of the clinical judgment model at working depth | Reference ranges and critical values → BOOK 07 | Any body system as its own subject |
| Cue recognition and the cue-to-hypothesis path | Every formula and worked calculation → BOOK 06 | Airway-breathing-circulation, Maslow, and acute versus chronic as ranking frameworks |
| Hypothesis generation, and ranking by likelihood against consequence | Priority frameworks and delegation → BOOK 03 | Delegation, assignment, and supervision decisions |
| The mechanics of all seven next-generation item types: bowtie, trend, matrix grid, drop-down in text, drag-and-drop, highlight in text, extended multiple response | The introductory pass through the loop → BOOK 01 · P9–P14 | The therapeutic communication bank → BOOK 14 |
| The three scoring models and what partial credit does to strategy | Body-system pathophysiology, used only as case fuel → BOOKS 08–14 | Computer adaptive test mechanics and the pass rule → BOOK 01 · P6 |
| A repeatable method for deconstructing an unfolding case | Isolation and personal protective equipment detail → BOOK 04 | Countdown planning and test-day protocol → BOOK 16 |
| The six reasoning failures that harm patients | Drug class logic → BOOK 05 | Score reporting and pass-rule language → BOOK 01 · P6 |
Legend
crit— a reasoning error with immediate patient harm behind it.watch— an error that costs points and delays care without harming directly.yield— a scoring trap: the safe-feeling behavior is the expensive one.ok— the keyed, defensible response.- Yellow mark — the sentence to carry out of the page.
- Pink mark — the boundary readers cross by accident.
- Cue icon — noticing and filtering.
- Analyze icon — connecting and explaining.
- Prioritize icon — ranking.
- Plan icon — building the option set.
- Act icon — doing, in order.
- Evaluate icon — checking the client, not the task.
How to use this book
Read pages 3 and 4 slowly; they are the machinery every later page assumes. Work page 11 with a pen in your hand before you read pages 12 through 14. Do not read a rationale page until the ledger beside every item is full.
Margin noteif it's a number, it lives in book 7.
☐ Read page 3 and page 4 before any question page.
Cross-references for the map of all fifteen upsells → BOOK 01 · P8 and for the Client Needs breakdown → BOOK 01 · P7. Ranking tools → BOOK 03 · P3.
TakeawayThis book teaches the reasoning, and every fact it touches has an owner named on this page.