How Doctors Think

Name: How Doctors Think
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ISBN: 9780547053646

ISBN-10: 0547053649

ISBN-13: 9780547053646

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jerome Groopman

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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 myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman explores the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. He pinpoints why doctors err and shows when and how they can-with our help-avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Jerome Groopman, M.D., holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he is the author of How Doctors Think, The Anatomy of Hope, Second Opinions, The Measure of Our Days, and other books.



Introduction



Flesh-and-Blood Decision-Making



Lessons from the Heart



Spinning Plates



Gatekeepers



A New Mother's Challenge



The Uncertainty of the Expert



Surgery and Satisfaction



The Eye of the Beholder



Marketing, Money, and Medical Decisions



In Service of the Soul


Epilogue: A Patient's Questions


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index