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"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." --Time magazine
From Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world's leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong--with catastrophic consequences. In this revolutionary book, Dr. Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make, offering direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Drawing on extensive interviews with some of the country's best doctors and Groopman's own experiences as a doctor and as a patient, How Doctors Think reveals an important approach to twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients a way to make better judgments together.
Show more"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." --Time magazine
From Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world's leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong--with catastrophic consequences. In this revolutionary book, Dr. Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make, offering direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Drawing on extensive interviews with some of the country's best doctors and Groopman's own experiences as a doctor and as a patient, How Doctors Think reveals an important approach to twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients a way to make better judgments together.
Show moreJerome Groopman, M.D. is the Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world's leading researchers in cancer and AIDS. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New Republic. He is author of The Measure of Our Days (1997), Second Opinions (2000), Anatomy of Hope (2004), How Doctors Think (2007), and the recently released, Your Medical Mind.
"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." -- Time"Every reflective doctor will learn from this book. . . every prospective patient will find thoughtful advice for communicating successfully." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"[Groopman's] most essential book yet." -- Boston Phoenix"Groopman has written a unique, important and wonderful book...You'll never look at your own doctor in the same way again." -- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, bestselling authors of Freakonomics"Splendid and courageous. . . Groopman lifts the veil on the most taboo topic. . . the pervasive nature of misdiagnosis." -- Ron Chernow, New York Times bestselling author"A sage, humane prescription for medical practitioners and the people who depend of them." -- O, the Oprah Magazine"A cogent analysis of all the wrong ways his fellow practitioners are trained to approach the patients they treat." -- Elle"A book to restore faith in an often-resented profession." -- Booklist
In a hotly contested book won by the publisher in a preemptive bid, a Harvard Medical School professor explains how issues like a doctor's age, gender, and relationship with the patient can affect care. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"Dr. Jerome Groopman is bringing out his most essential book
yet, HOW DOCTORS THINK." Boston Phoenix "A highly pleasurable
must-read." Kirkus Reviews, Starred Every reflective doctor will
learn from this book...every prospective patient will find
thoughtful advice for communicating successfully Publishers Weekly,
Starred A book to restore faith in an often-resented profession,
well enough written to warrant its quarter-million first
printing.
Booklist, ALA A cogent analysis of all the wrong ways his fellow
practitioners are trained to appraoch the patients they treat.
Elle A sage, humane prescription for medical practitioners and the
people who depend of them. O, The Oprah Magazine "Splendid and
courageous...Groopman lifts the veil on the most taboo topic...the
pervasive nature of misdiagnosis." -- Ron Chernow, author of
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, TITAN, and THE HOUSE OF MORGAN "Groopman has
written a unique, important and wonderful book...You'll never look
at your own doctor in the same way again." -- Steven D. Levitt and
Stephen J. Dubner, authors of FREAKONOMICS --
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