| Summary: | The determination of the main elements that forms the decision taking process in medical assistance facilitates the comprehension of the process to be put in practice by the physician, as well as the evaluation of the professional performance. In this article the most outstanding characteristics of the medical decision taking are identified: the decisions transcendence, great influence of time factor; probabilistic character of Medicine as a science, ¨relative¨ predictability of pathologic phenomena, variability of medical knowledge, patient involving in decisions, and limited objectivity of problems and decisions. For being the auxiliary medical attention a decision taking process, this elements determine by far the medical professional performance.<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong></strong></span>
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