The error of 'stop looking' is where the search for appropriate diagnoses is not continued once one possibility has been found.
The remedy is to include all appropriate possible diagnoses within either the list of the 'most likely' diagnoses or the list of the 'unlikely but serious or treatable' diagnoses; and then to keep reviewing them.
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